Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:03:21 +1030 From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> To: Volker Stolz <vs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: seanc@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de> Subject: Re: ports/89703: [maintainer-update] textproc/refdb to 0.9.6 Message-ID: <20051130223321.GB58035@bigbird.logicsquad.net> In-Reply-To: <20051130151338.GF26259@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <200511291335.jATDZkD8037402@freefall.freebsd.org> <20051130005103.GB93035@bigbird.logicsquad.net> <20051130151338.GF26259@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Hi Volker,
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:13:38PM +0100, Volker Stolz wrote:
> Am 30. Nov 2005 um 01:51 CET schrieb Paul A. Hoadley:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:35:46PM +0000, Volker Stolz wrote:
> >=20
> > > Although your intent to use versioned dependencies is honorable,
> > > it'll mean that LIB_DEPENDS is incomplete (missing
> > > libdbi).
> >=20
> > LIB_DEPENDS is similarly incomplete in the current version of this
> > port. Dependency on libdbi was only ever expressed indirectly by
> > BUILD_DEPENDS on the various backend drivers in libdbi-drivers. For
> > example, if the user selected 'MySQL' as the DB backend for refdb, the
> > Makefile adds the following:
> >=20
> > USE_MYSQL=3D yes
> > # If libdbi-drivers has been built without MySQL driver, abort
> > .if exists(${LOCALBASE}/lib/dbd) && !exists(${LOCALBASE}/lib/dbd/libmys=
ql.so)
> > IGNORE=3D Rebuild databases/libdbi-drivers with MySQL support
> > .elif !exists(${LOCALBASE}/lib/dbd)
> > BUILD_DEPENDS+=3D ${LOCALBASE}/lib/dbd:${PORTSDIR}/databases/libdbi-dri=
vers
> > .endif
> >=20
> > The .if is true if libdbi exists, but libmysql.so was never installed.
> > There's no way to automate the consequence, as libdbi-drivers uses
> > OPTIONS in its Makefile, and so we can't force libmysql.so to be
> > built. The .elif is true if libdbi was never built, in which case we
> > make database/libdbi-drivers a BUILD_DEPENDS, and rely on the user to
> > select the right backend.
> >=20
> > > Unfortunately, I don't see an easy fix. I'd say let's go for a
> > > regular LIB_DEPENDS again since running with stale dependencies is
> > > never really supported.
> >=20
> > I don't see an easy fix either, and I think even the approach for the
> > existing port is a bit of a mess. Are you saying it would be
> > sufficient to add 'dbi:${PORTSDIR}/databases/libdbi' to LIB_DEPENDS?
>=20
> Hm, it looks like there's no apropriate logic to get
> libdbi/dbi-drivers to do what you want. In that case, maybe you
> could set additionally RUN_DEPENDS. I think there'll still be a way
> by installing from packages that will lead to missing dependencies,
> though. Maybe if dbi-drivers were to use several slave-ports, we'd
> have a solution...
Someone on freebsd-ports suggested exactly that when I was making the
first version of this port. We settled for the compromise that was
eventually committed.
> I'm cc:ing the dbi (seanc@) and dbi-drivers (delphij@) guys for
> comments.
Excellent. I'll tack on Markus Hoenicka too, the author of RefDB.
BTW, none of this is going into GNATS---should it be?
--=20
Paul.
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