Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-18 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
fbsd wrote: Modify the master make code to post a count to a special purpose FreeBSD website by passing it a cookie. Now every time a any user runs the port make install that special purpose FreeBSD website will be accessed counting how many times that port is really executed. Then use

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-16 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 15 May 2006 23:47:50 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Hill writes: IMHO, your gripes are misdirected - complain to your ISP about the speed and reliability of your service. This should NOT take two hours. It could also be a matter of using the wrong server

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle

2006-05-15 Thread Oliver Nevezi
To fbsd: Man,stop the trolling shit for good. You have /usr/ports/misc/porteasy,use it and leave us alone. You are just too much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 20:28 13.05.2006, fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? The port collection is growing at a ever increasing rate per month. The

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Hartland
Chris wrote: On 15/05/06, fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep the ports tree how it is, as others have said the size is small on modern hard drives and bandwidth trivial, once the initial ports tree is in place keeping it up to date needs very little bandwidth and its only distfiles that tend to

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Adrian Pavone
Spadge wrote: fbsd wrote: fbsd wrote: * so working with in that same procedure the maintainer passes the packages to the audit people and they pass it on. No problem with this at all. Thus removing any kind of streamlining to speed up releases of new versions? the

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
Mark Linimon wrote: On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:04:55PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: I believe that one solution to the scalability problem of creating and maintaining updated packages, would be to decentralize it more. Each time I submit an update for one of the ports I maintain, I've

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Adrian Pavone
Steven Hartland wrote: Chris wrote: On 15/05/06, fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep the ports tree how it is, as others have said the size is small on modern hard drives and bandwidth trivial, once the initial ports tree is in place keeping it up to date needs very little bandwidth and its

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread fbsd
Keep the ports tree how it is, as others have said the size is small on modern hard drives and bandwidth trivial, once the initial ports tree is in place keeping it up to date needs very little bandwidth and its only distfiles that tend to be large, but you only download distfiles for ports you

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Hartland
Adrian Pavone wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: This is why there are options in place that would allow you to download the cvsup to one of you computers, likely a server of some sort, and your other computers all retrieve the CVSup from this local server, significantly speeding up the retrieval

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Adrian Pavone
And what about the case of a port that would be built many times over its lifetime, mainly due to program version changes? The first one that springs to mind would be Firefox. Firefox has had a number of version changes in the same space of time that Exim, a very commonly used mail server

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
maybe this is a bit off target, but it seems to me the ports tree is not too large: I've found stuff I've wanted that wasn't on the ports tree. I think it's too small. Unless you are on a 56k, but then everything ports related will be painful. However a reoganization could be in order...

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
Just remember it has to be a /better/ mousetrap. wouldn't it be a peopletrap in this case, since it's for people? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Reko Turja
I do use the ports mechanism on my FreeBSD systems exclusively due the possibility of making the system components meshing and working in unison instead of version and dll-hell. And now and then I find some obscure port that fits the current needs - And again the ports system makes the whole

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread fbsd
The best indicator that the ports collection has become to large is that it took me 2 hours to download the complete port-all collection using A DSL internet connection. To compile the ports I use took another 11 hours. This is the reason I went to using packages in the first place. Downloading

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Paul Schmehl
fbsd wrote: The best indicator that the ports collection has become to large is that it took me 2 hours to download the complete port-all collection using A DSL internet connection. To compile the ports I use took another 11 hours. This is the reason I went to using packages in the first place.

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 15 May 2006, fbsd wrote: The best indicator that the ports collection has become to large is that it took me 2 hours to download the complete port-all collection using A DSL internet connection. Ah, the crux of the matter. I'd guess that was the driving force behind this entire

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread James Long
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 14:28:49 -0400 From: fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Has the port collection become to large to handle. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I for one think the port/package collection has already grown to large to handle in

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Hill writes: IMHO, your gripes are misdirected - complain to your ISP about the speed and reliability of your service. This should NOT take two hours. It could also be a matter of using the wrong server for your time and place. A data point: I just pulled a fresh

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-May-13 22:37:01 -0500, Joseph Kerian wrote: The resemblance is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. Is there anything preventing someone from making a portupgrade-like tool that uses only tmp, a /ports dir on an ftp site and a bit of intelligence regarding dependency resolution?

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
fbsd wrote: So people them use the packages. But the problem with the packages is they are not updated every time changes are made to the port they were created from. Also packages that have dependants like php4/php5 or mysql4/mysql5 are not being updated to use the newer versions of those

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 20:28 13.05.2006, fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? The port collection is growing at a ever increasing rate per month. The

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread fbsd
Comments have been posted about how to determine in a fair way which ports would be included in the most commonly used category? The solution to that concern is pretty easy to do. Modify the master make code to post a count to a special purpose FreeBSD website by passing it a cookie. Now every

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:49:51PM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote: under a given measure ( to be decided again by stats ) said port is moved to a secondary port group. Eww, sounds like a good definition of spyware, I could go without people knowing exactly what I install and when. I for one

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread fbsd
fbsd wrote: The fact is the maintainer is all ready being trusted to manage the port so I see no reason NOT to trust him to create the matching package. Because they don't. The port maintainer is trusted to maintain the port ... and then a bunch of people are trusted to audit the ports before

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Frank Laszlo
Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:49:51PM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote: under a given measure ( to be decided again by stats ) said port is moved to a secondary port group. Eww, sounds like a good definition of spyware, I could go without people knowing exactly what I

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Spadge
fbsd wrote: The fact is the maintainer is all ready being trusted to manage the port so I see no reason NOT to trust him to create the matching package. Because they don't. The port maintainer is trusted to maintain the port ... and then a bunch of people are trusted to audit the ports

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Spadge
fbsd wrote: fbsd wrote: * so working with in that same procedure the maintainer passes the packages to the audit people and they pass it on. No problem with this at all. Thus removing any kind of streamlining to speed up releases of new versions? the port make method

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 14 May 2006 06:08, fbsd wrote: fbsd wrote: The fact is the maintainer is all ready being trusted to manage the port so I see no reason NOT to trust him to create the matching package. Because they don't. The port maintainer is trusted to maintain the port ... and then a bunch

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread fbsd
fbsd wrote: fbsd wrote: * so working with in that same procedure the maintainer passes the packages to the audit people and they pass it on. No problem with this at all. Thus removing any kind of streamlining to speed up releases of new versions? *** again you are missing the

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Spadge
fbsd wrote: *** again you are missing the point. Streaminglining would still occurs because only the most used ports would have packages not the whole collection. The work load would still be reduced. In your opinion. Roughly what percentage would make it through to the 'most used

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread fbsd
Spadge Your comments are becoming more and more meaningless. You are no longer contributing to the brainstorming of this thread. Your attempt to engage a argument have failed. All posts from you will go unanswered as you are now on my troll kill list. fbsd wrote: *** again you are missing

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Chris
On 15/05/06, fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spadge Your comments are becoming more and more meaningless. You are no longer contributing to the brainstorming of this thread. Your attempt to engage a argument have failed. All posts from you will go unanswered as you are now on my troll kill list.

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:04:55PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: I believe that one solution to the scalability problem of creating and maintaining updated packages, would be to decentralize it more. Each time I submit an update for one of the ports I maintain, I've already build the

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Spadge
fbsd wrote: Spadge Your comments are becoming more and more meaningless. You are no longer contributing to the brainstorming of this thread. Your attempt to engage a argument have failed. All posts from you will go unanswered as you are now on my troll kill list. *joy* Agreeing with one

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Beech Rintoul
First of all, please don't cross post. On Saturday 13 May 2006 10:28, fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? The port collection

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? snip All feedback welcome. 1. Cvsup 2. Prozac /me rolls eyes, again Kevin

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 13 May 2006 10:28, fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? The port collection is growing at a ever increasing rate

RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread fbsd
As a port maintainer, it's quite enough work to keep things in sync with one ports tree without having to also worry about a second convenience tree that will only benefit a few users. This post says nothing about a second convenience tree. Talking about a (to use your term) convenience category

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Shaun Amott
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:28:49PM -0400, fbsd wrote: Users are consuming massive bandwidth to download and it consumes a very large chunk of disk space. Saying nothing about the wasted resources consumed to back it up repeatedly. cvsup uses a relatively tiny amount of bandwidth, since

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-May-13 21:39:46 +0100, Shaun Amott wrote: If bandwidth really is a problem, then it is possible - but not necessarily a good idea - to check out individual ports via CVS. This is not supported. If you want to build ports from source, you _must_ have a complete and consistent ports

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:28:49PM -0400, fbsd wrote: I for one think the port/package collection has already grown to large to handle in it's present state. I suspect you are in the minority here. Users are consuming massive bandwidth to download and it consumes a very large chunk of disk

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:28 PM -0400 5/13/06, fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? This is a good question. For all those people who want to roll

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Robert Huff
Shaun Amott writes: cvsup uses a relatively tiny amount of bandwidth, since only changes are being sent. Personally, I have a local cvsup mirror from which my other machines get their updates, so really, there isn't any wastage. Back when I had a 28.8 dialup connection, I

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 2:28 PM -0400 5/13/06, fbsd wrote: To all question list readers; Now with 14576 ports in the collection where do you draw the line that its too large to be downloading the whole collection when you just use 10 or 20 of them? This is a good

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Steven Hartland
Garance A Drosihn wrote: Unfortunately, this is the wrong solution. I'm sure you will love this *IFF* (that means if and ONLY if) all of *YOUR* ports are in that category of important ports. We have 15,000 ports because every single one of those ports has some users who think that specific

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Frank Laszlo
Steven Hartland wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Unfortunately, this is the wrong solution. I'm sure you will love this *IFF* (that means if and ONLY if) all of *YOUR* ports are in that category of important ports. We have 15,000 ports because every single one of those ports has some users who

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Joseph Kerian
On 5/13/06, Frank Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could also use this info to prune ports not getting any use at all. Then when someone does need it, it wont be there, and will have to be re-ported. In addition to that a method of syncing ports indivitually might be an alternative way