From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 23 09:24:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C1C16A42B for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:24:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039D443D46 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:24:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420682082; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:24:28 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -3.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on tim.des.no Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2082081; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:24:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8D87933C1D; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:24:27 +0100 (CET) To: Peter Jeremy References: <2209162.1137777933811.JavaMail.root@vms075.mailsrvcs.net> <20060120193741.GC39932@xor.obsecurity.org> <43D15C19.314EC346@verizon.net> <20060120222629.GA43985@xor.obsecurity.org> <43D19011.D15F8462@verizon.net> <20060121015311.GA46753@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060121160739.GH63244@over-yonder.net> <20060121202321.GA83848@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060121203057.GK63244@over-yonder.net> <20060121210956.GU25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:24:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20060121210956.GU25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> (Peter Jeremy's message of "Sun, 22 Jan 2006 08:09:56 +1100") Message-ID: <86hd7vcn5g.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:24:34 -0000 Peter Jeremy writes: > On Sat, 2006-Jan-21 14:30:57 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > Yes, but portupgrade and friends already do most of that, so they can > > upgrade stuff "in order". > Actually, they rely on there being an up-to-date INDEX file and build > their own dependency database from that. porteasy doesn't; it parses the Makefile to attempt to detect master / slave relationships, then uses make -V to obtain fetch / build / lib / run dependencies. Replacing make with a specialized tool with a more expressive syntax would make this much easier, and much faster. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no