Re: Limitations of Ports System

2008-01-12 Thread RW
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:32:55 -0800 (PST) Tim Clewlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also I have the following options on in /etc/make.conf. CFLAGS= -O -pipe# Optimize general builds COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe # Optimize kernel builds I would suggest you remove these since they are

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2008-01-11 Thread Chris
On 13/12/2007, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wonder if you asked the general population, whether they'd rather have ports or packages, I bet most would vote for packages, aside from those that actually like watching the compilation output fly by. I do like to watch it but in addition I

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2008-01-11 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/12/2007, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wonder if you asked the general population, whether they'd rather have ports or packages, I bet most would vote for packages, aside from those that actually like watching the compilation output fly by.

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-16 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Linimon wrote: Side note the more we discuss this the more obvious it becomes to me it has to be in some OO lang and since C++ is the only one in the base system it kind of forces C++ to be the implementation lang. You may want to take a

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-16 Thread David Southwell
On Saturday 15 December 2007 13:28:40 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: you do not maintain any ports Incorrect I have one that is currently officially pending in the backlog created by the freeze (the PR is sitting their waiting). Also as soon that port is done and any errors I may of made as it

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-16 Thread David J Brooks
On Saturday 15 December 2007 01:25:11 pm David Southwell wrote: My intention is not to offend but to draw attention to the need to remain on topic and not to argue ad personam. On Sunday 16 December 2007 03:33:55 am David Southwell wrote: Good of you to post the information however

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread David Southwell
On Friday 14 December 2007 18:44:09 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On December 14, 2007 5:21:02 PM -0800 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Information does indeed need to be gathered, and while even the ports list will only grab a small percentage of FreeBSD users, other options would likely grab a lot

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:34:06PM -0500, Yoshihiro Ota wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:58:57 +0100 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One shortcoming is the lack of locking making parallell builds a bit unsafe. If you try to build both port A and port B at the same time, and both A and

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread David Southwell
mailing list) is our world as much as it is your world. Think about collegial coexistence or use the delete key. Otherwise please stay on topic and stop trolling. This thread is about the limitations of ports system not Why we should not talk about trhe limitations of the Ports System. 1. Stay

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Your correct that there are 2 seperate issues at play here but there is a common solution (and to be honest I have yet to see any feature/issue discussed in any of the re-engineering threads that doesn't at least become more manageable under this general design concept I

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread David Southwell
On Saturday 15 December 2007 08:04:31 Frank J. Laszlo wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Your correct that there are 2 seperate issues at play here but there is a common solution (and to be honest I have yet to see any feature/issue discussed in any of the re-engineering threads that doesn't

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
David Southwell wrote: And get this I have been around the computer world using *nix long before freebsd came along. That does not mean what I say today deserves to be judged other than on its face value. However what over 40 years in IT has encouraged me to think that those who invite

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread David Southwell
On Saturday 15 December 2007 10:41:14 Frank J. Laszlo wrote: David Southwell wrote: And get this I have been around the computer world using *nix long before freebsd came along. That does not mean what I say today deserves to be judged other than on its face value. However what over 40

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Frank J. Laszlo wrote: I rarely post on -ports anymore, due to the lack of order and respect for those who actually DO SOMETHING, and not just bitch and moan about things that should be done. I remember it was only a few short years ago that ports@ was completely inundated by receiving

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Frank J. Laszlo wrote: I rarely post on -ports anymore, due to the lack of order and respect for those who actually DO SOMETHING, and not just bitch and moan about things that should be done. Let me also make another point related to this sentence. While obviously there should be respect

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you do not maintain any ports Incorrect I have one that is currently officially pending in the backlog created by the freeze (the PR is sitting their waiting). Also as soon that port is done and any errors I may of made as it being my first port I

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Matt Dawson
On Friday 14 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was not planning to skimp on the requirements at all but the test case is xorg. A far better test case, IMHO, would be to run a similar build to the pointyhat cluster if you're serious about *replacing* the ports system. Unless a new system

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Dawson wrote: On Friday 14 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was not planning to skimp on the requirements at all but the test case is xorg. A far better test case, IMHO, would be to run a similar build to the pointyhat cluster if you're

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19:06 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def with 345 and 678 then 345 will be cached for def since we already set it for abc.

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def with 345 and 678 then 345 will be cached for def since we already set it for abc. How do you know the user wants 345 set on both ports? It might be a useful

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread David Southwell
On Friday 14 December 2007 08:08:54 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19:06 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def with 345 and 678 then

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def with 345 and 678 then 345 will be cached for def since we already set it for abc. How do you know

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19:06 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def with 345 and 678

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Skip Ford
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: RW wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def with 345 and 678 then 345 will be cached for def since we already set it for abc. How do you know the user wants 345 set

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Skip Ford wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: RW wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def with 345 and 678 then 345 will be cached for def since we

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Remko Lodder
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Remko Lodder wrote: David Southwell wrote: On Friday 14 December 2007 08:08:54 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19:06 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely if I

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Remko Lodder
David Southwell wrote: On Friday 14 December 2007 08:08:54 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19:06 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and def

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remko Lodder wrote: David Southwell wrote: On Friday 14 December 2007 08:08:54 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19:06 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remko Lodder wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Remko Lodder wrote: David Southwell wrote: On Friday 14 December 2007 08:08:54 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19:06 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remko Lodder wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Remko Lodder wrote: David Southwell wrote: On Friday 14 December 2007 08:08:54 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19:06

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. Make plan. 2. Ask limited group for sanity check. 3. Code, code code. Go back to 2. if necessary. Continue to 4. when done. 4. Ask larger group for sanity check and testing. Go back to 3. if necessary. Continue to 5. when done. 5. Release.

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Skip Ford
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Developing in a vacuum is a recipe for disaster we are making fairly good progress believe it or not I only see an other 1 or 2 threads being needed before actual coding starts, *BUT* producing a system no one wants is pointless thus it is wise to gather as much

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remko Lodder wrote: You Simply dont understand the way it works here and I can understand that till a certain point of view; take the advise; discuss it elsewhere, and get back with working code (yeah I repeat it twice

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Skip Ford wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Developing in a vacuum is a recipe for disaster we are making fairly good progress believe it or not I only see an other 1 or 2 threads being needed before actual coding starts, *BUT* producing a

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Kirkwood wrote: Skip Ford wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Developing in a vacuum is a recipe for disaster we are making fairly good progress believe it or not I only see an other 1 or 2 threads being needed before actual coding starts,

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Skip Ford wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Developing in a vacuum is a recipe for disaster we are making fairly good progress believe it or not I only see an other 1 or 2 threads being needed before actual coding starts, *BUT* producing a system no one wants is pointless thus it is wise

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Brian
Mark Kirkwood wrote: That is a little unfair IMHO - Aryeh has to gather information from those who use the current system, and @ports is clearly the place for that! Now he may listen to all, some or none of the points of view he receives... and that may well determine the success or

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:08 AM -0600 12/14/07, Paul Schmehl wrote: SInce I've already killfiled Aryeh, I guess we should all killfile you, too. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 14, 2007 5:21:02 PM -0800 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Information does indeed need to be gathered, and while even the ports list will only grab a small percentage of FreeBSD users, other options would likely grab a lot less. Plus, most of the users here are knowledgeable

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:51:14PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: At 10:08 AM -0600 12/14/07, Paul Schmehl wrote: SInce I've already killfiled Aryeh, I guess we should all killfile you, too. Can we please just stop the meta-thread now and go back to working on all the myriad things that

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is too bad I am in your killfile because you will not get this ;-) Yet the proponents of the Aryeh bandwagon keep throwing up this straw man that those of us who have tired of the useless back and forth are refusing to listen and uninterested

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 14, 2007 7:51:14 PM -0500 Garance A Drosehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:08 AM -0600 12/14/07, Paul Schmehl wrote: SInce I've already killfiled Aryeh, I guess we should all killfile you, too. Be my guest. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On December 14, 2007 5:21:02 PM -0800 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Information does indeed need to be gathered, and while even the ports list will only grab a small percentage of FreeBSD users, other options would likely grab a lot less. Plus, most of the users here

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Yoshihiro Ota
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:58:57 +0100 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One shortcoming is the lack of locking making parallell builds a bit unsafe. If you try to build both port A and port B at the same time, and both A and B depends (directly or indirectly) on port C which is not

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-14 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yoshihiro Ota wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:58:57 +0100 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One shortcoming is the lack of locking making parallell builds a bit unsafe. If you try to build both port A and port B at the same time, and both A

Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Steven Kreuzer
This thread was called results of ports re-engineering survey but I figured I would start a new thread. On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Ade Lovett wrote: We *know* it can be done better. We *know* the scaling limits of the current system, and most of us are completely amazed it even still

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Steven Kreuzer wrote: This thread was called results of ports re-engineering survey but I figured I would start a new thread. Rightly so. On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Ade Lovett wrote: We *know* it can be done better. We *know* the scaling limits of the current

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Kreuzer wrote: This thread was called results of ports re-engineering survey but I figured I would start a new thread. On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Ade Lovett wrote: We *know* it can be done better. We *know* the scaling limits of

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Steven Kreuzer wrote: This thread was called results of ports re-engineering survey but I figured I would start a new thread. Rightly so. On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Ade Lovett wrote: We *know* it can be done

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Steven Kreuzer wrote: This thread was called results of ports re-engineering survey but I figured I would start a new thread. Rightly so. On Dec

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:17:34AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Steven Kreuzer wrote: This thread was called results of ports re-engineering survey but I figured I would start a new thread. Rightly so. On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Ade Lovett wrote: We *know* it can

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:42:43AM -0500, Steven Kreuzer wrote: This thread was called results of ports re-engineering survey but I figured I would start a new thread. On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Ade Lovett wrote: We *know* it can be done better. We *know* the scaling limits of the

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Steven Kreuzer wrote: This thread was called results of ports re-engineering survey but I figured I would start a new thread. On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Ade Lovett wrote: We *know* it can be done better. We *know* the scaling limits of the current system, and most of us are completely

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread John Birrell
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:00:54PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: That is why I plan to use xorg as the test case for the new system namely if it builds xorg in the most efficent way possible then it will be considered good enough for release You need to pick a much more complicated set

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Brian
I just wonder if you asked the general population, whether they'd rather have ports or packages, I bet most would vote for packages, aside from those that actually like watching the compilation output fly by. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Birrell wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:00:54PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: That is why I plan to use xorg as the test case for the new system namely if it builds xorg in the most efficent way possible then it will be considered

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread John Birrell
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:36:07PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I was not planning to skimp on the requirements at all but the test case is xorg... i.e. I will do my best to not compermise on features/requirements but xorg meets several criteria for being a good test (out of order building,

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Birrell wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:36:07PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I was not planning to skimp on the requirements at all but the test case is xorg... i.e. I will do my best to not compermise on features/requirements but xorg

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-13 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny Pansters wrote: On Thursday 13 December 2007 19:17:34 Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Steven Kreuzer wrote: This thread was called results of ports re-engineering survey but I figured I would start a new thread. Rightly so. On