Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 03:17:32 +0000 From: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com> To: Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configuration database confusion Message-ID: <20021015031732.GA37604@doublegemini.com> In-Reply-To: <20021015105221.351863de.tim@spyderweb.com.au> References: <20021014211418.GC36236@doublegemini.com> <20021015105221.351863de.tim@spyderweb.com.au>
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:52:21AM +0930, Tim Aslat wrote:
| In the immortal words of "Clark C. Evans" <cce@clarkevans.com>...
| > My problem is that if I install a given port on one
| > system, it somehow marks that port as installed so
| > that "make install" no longer attempts an installation.
| > This problem can be emulated by:
|
| Try looking in the work directory, there is an empty file installed
| there for each part of the build process. these files start with
| .<portname>-install or something similar to that.
| Just delete the -install file and it works fine.
Thank you, I used the above nugget to produce the following
python script which will "resync" what pkg_info thinks with
what the port mechanism knows about.
import os
def syncports(root='',prn=0):
pkg = {}
if root: lst = os.popen("chroot %s pkg_info" % root, "r")
else: lst = os.popen("pkg_info","r")
while lst:
ln = lst.readline()
if not ln: break
ln = ln.split(" ")[0]
pkg[ln] = None
idx = open("%s/usr/ports/INDEX" % root )
for port in idx.readlines():
port = port.split("|")
name = port[0]
path = port[1]
file = "%s%s/work/.install_done.%s" % (root,path,name)
try:
if pkg.has_key(name):
fh = open(file,"w")
fh.write("")
fh.close()
if prn: print "==> ", name
else:
os.remove(file)
except: pass
if '__main__' == __name__:
syncports(prn=1)
| Your other concern regarding bandwidth, is false. the distfiles are
| stored in /usr/ports/distfiles so don't need to be downloaded again,
| except via the local network.
Nods. I'm new to this... and the ports just didn't behave
quite as I expected. In particular, the "make install" for
a port should be checking with pkg_info rather than using
the .install_done files. Any chance of having this fixed?
Is there any reason for the install_done file?
| The other option is to make package instead of install, this creates a
| binary package which should work on the target machines, rather than
| having to do an install.
But this solution isn't recursive is it? I mean, will it
build me all of the dependent ports as well? The above hack
works... but I'd wish that "make install" is a bit smarter
(or actually, perhaps more stupid...)
Best,
Clark
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