Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:14:07 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Subject: Re: Speeding up pkg_version and perhaps other port utilities Message-ID: <4650D63F.4090705@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4650C9C0.3080706@FreeBSD.org> References: <464FD334.9040705@math.missouri.edu> <20070520082931.47fe8db9@deskjail> <4650C9C0.3080706@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> (Sat, 19 >> May 2007 23:48:52 -0500): >> >>> On my system, the program pkg_version can double its speed simply by >>> replacing "make -V PKGNAME" by "make BEFOREPORTMK=yes -V PKGNAME" > > This is very cool! I've already added it to my devel version of > portmaster in several places. I call make a LOT in portmaster, so I went > through every invocation and added this wherever it worked (i.e., didn't > cause a difference in (or absence of) output. > > I'd also like to say thanks to Stephen, Alexander, and everyone else > who's taken an interest in optimizing the ports infrastructure. I've > managed to work around some of the inefficiencies with portmaster, but I > learn new tricks (like this one) on a regular basis. Having things be > more efficient to start with would be a great thing for all of our users. > >>> It seems to me that with some clever use like this, certain commands >>> like "make all-package-depends" could selectively read only parts of >>> bsd.port.mk. >> >> You have to make sure no dependency is set in the second part of >> bsd.port.mk then. I don't know for sure if this is already the case. I >> expect that it is not the case. > > It depends on the target. My suggestion would be to test them on an > individual basis. It's usually pretty clear if they will work or not. > > hth, > > Doug (On a similar note): Ugh.. I really hate the Ruby tools now. See <http://blogs.freebsdish.org/gcooper/2007/05/20/the-inefficiencies-of-pkgdbdb/>; for more details. -Garrett
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