Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Kurt Abahar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Side note: I'm asking because I would definitely be willing to contribute since this would make using ports and packages together much easier. I think the issue is one of building tens of thousands of applications

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thierry Thomas wrote: Le Ven 27 jul 07 à 3:44:32 +0200, Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : Kurt Abahar wrote: I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of time to compile them. Therefore, I'm trying to use packages as much

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Jul-27 07:51:57 +0100, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be feasible to use CVS tags to mark the state of the ports tree whenever a package is successfully rebuilt by the cluster and pushed out to the FTP servers? This would generate an immense amount of CVS repo churn and

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-27 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:07:25 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the problem is more that there's a noticable delay between a port being updated and a matching set of packages being available. At least for me, it hardly ever is an actual problem. I mean, building ports from

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Kurt Abahar wrote: I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with that from which the latest packages in packages-6-stable were built. Is there a way to accomplish this? Sure, you probably

Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with that from which the latest packages in packages-6-stable were built. Is there a way to accomplish this? Thank you Be a

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Doug Barton
Kurt Abahar wrote: --- Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you can describe in more detail what you're trying to accomplish. Leave out potential solutions, just describe what your goal is. I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of time to compile them. Therefore, I'm

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Doug Barton
Kurt Abahar wrote: I have tried the portupgrade way, but unfortunately the packages lag behind ports the majority of the time. It's actually 100% of the time, and always will be. This led me to think that keeping the ports tree a little behind HEAD would be a better solution. However, I

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Kurt Abahar wrote: I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with that from which the latest packages in packages-6-stable were built. Is there a way to accomplish this? Sure, you probably want something like portupgrade -P or portupgrade -PP

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
--- Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No such facility exists, and I don't imagine anyone creating one any time soon because it would be VERY hard to accomplish for a large number of reasons. If you don't mind, could you please elaborate on this? Side note: I'm asking because I would

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
--- Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you can describe in more detail what you're trying to accomplish. Leave out potential solutions, just describe what your goal is. I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of time to compile them. Therefore, I'm trying to use packages

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Ven 27 jul 07 à 3:44:32 +0200, Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : Kurt Abahar wrote: I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of time to compile them. Therefore, I'm trying to use packages as much as possible. After updating the ports tree using portsnap, portupgrade

Keeping ports and packages synchronized

2007-07-22 Thread Kurt Abahar
Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with the latest packages in order to minimize version mismatches and to allow easy mixing between them. So far I've been using a hack that does a listing of the packages-6-stable directory on the freebsd ftp, and uses the