Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:00:03 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Overly restrictive checks in the make process Message-ID: <20070720200003.GC8179@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20070720085855.99fb2109.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <20070720085855.99fb2109.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:58:55AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Why? Is there a legitimate reason why the fetch process refuses to > download this? The intention of the logic is to warn a user, as soon as possible, that they are spending time on something that will wind up being IGNOREd if it is installed. There is no logic there to try to figure out "later version of port"; it simply looks for "is IGNORE set?" Since some downloads take a long time, this does not seem too unreasonable to me. If we moved the check later, the process of trying to install a port that would be IGNOREd would be: spend time fetching and checksumming it, and only then tell the user that they had wasted their time. I think the best we could do is add something analagous to how DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES factors into it, and allow foot-shooting only if demanded, but turn it off by default. mcl
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