Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:55:47 +0100 From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: vd@datamax.bg, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsearch: approach to finding ports that provide a given file Message-ID: <20060117175547.0e045df1.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060117170336.5w4onpdngw0w8cg8@netchild.homeip.net> References: <20060117094805.GA94247@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <20060117154434.01ccd2ea.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> <20060117170336.5w4onpdngw0w8cg8@netchild.homeip.net>
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--Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_17_55_48_+0100_t_1nZbXUnwzNHSx6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:03:36 +0100 Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote: > Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > "make fetchindex" like operation comes into mind... "make fetchsearchinde= x"? make fetchallmetadatafilesandupdatedatabase :) --=20 Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@FreeBSD.org http://lefort.be.eu.org/ --Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_17_55_48_+0100_t_1nZbXUnwzNHSx6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDzSGUyzD7UaO4AGoRAlaSAJ9JPqQn3prKFleJkokp9yV+oXBiOACfcFjZ 3tq/+sRmHbL5jiEBNW73Dx8= =iJMn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__17_Jan_2006_17_55_48_+0100_t_1nZbXUnwzNHSx6--
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