Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:04:22 +0200 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> To: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsearch: approach to finding ports that provide a given file Message-ID: <20060117190422.GA40220@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <20060117154434.01ccd2ea.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> References: <20060117094805.GA94247@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <20060117154434.01ccd2ea.jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
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--OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:44:34PM +0100, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:48:05 +0200 > Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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. Here are some numbers: Currently the list of all the plist files is 64M, without any trace which port each file belongs to. When each plist file is prepended with port number (1-14004) the list becomes 72M, when bzip2ed it becomes 6M, but then split into 14000 separate files and each one bzip2ed separately then all 14000 archives are 28M. --=20 Vasil Dimov --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFDzT+2Fw6SP/bBpCARAqbPAJwI7byZ9Bkm2d/DPvukeiY8n5nrlACeNRXU ltmhSQccstDGsCa8S1OJvVQ= =92Y4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG--
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