Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:03:36 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@freebsd.org> Cc: vd@datamax.bg, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsearch: approach to finding ports that provide a given file Message-ID: <20060117170336.5w4onpdngw0w8cg8@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20060117154434.01ccd2ea.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> References: <20060117094805.GA94247@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <20060117154434.01ccd2ea.jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
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Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:48:05 +0200 > Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> wrote: > >> Some ports generate their plists after being installed, making it >> impossible to record the plist without fetching the source tarballs, >> compiling and installing the software. Currently for these ports empty >> or flawed plists are recorded. One way to fix this problem is to >> retrieve the plists for these ports from the precompiled packages >> available at ftp.freebsd.org but the whole packages need to be fetched, >> causing (large) amount of unefficient network traffic. >> Any ideas for resolving the problem are welcome. > > The package building scripts (Tools/portbuild) could be modified to > create pkgname-metadata.tbz files and make them available on the > FreeBSD ftp site. An utility which would retrieve these files and > maintain a database could then be created. Said utility could be run > by end users on their home machines, as well as by some machine on the > FreeBSD cluster which would maintain a database queryable through > www.FreeBSD.org. This approach requires coordination with the package > building and www people. "make fetchindex" like operation comes into mind... "make fetchsearchindex"? Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 Denver, n: A smallish city located just below the `O' in Colorado.
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