Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 14:36:34 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? Message-ID: <20070512183634.GA23819@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070512133054.B5588@math.missouri.edu> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> <20070512174011.GA22526@xor.obsecurity.org> <4645FF71.60100@gmx.de> <20070512175824.GA23103@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070512133054.B5588@math.missouri.edu>
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--SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 01:33:40PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Sat, 12 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:54:57PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > >> > >> > >>Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>>On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:32:38PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > >>>>With Xorg updated to 7.2 many ports take much longer to register than > >>>>to download, build and install. I think it's time to abandon the > >>>>recursive pulling in of dependencies. > >>> > >>>I think that before you abandon something you should first understand > >>>it. Figure out what is taking so long to register the port and then > >>>work out whether it can be optimized. > >> > >>What takes so long in my opinion, is that not only the dependencies are > >>registered as dependencies, but that the dependencies of dependencies a= re=20 > >>also > >>registered as dependencies and so forth. Since all the commands supplie= d=20 > >>by > >>ports walk dependencies recursively, as well as tools like portupgrade,= =20 > >>this > >>is unnecessary (that is, assuming that I understood bsd.port.mk=20 > >>correctly). > >> > >>To abandon this behaviour would in my opinion only have advantages. > > > >Go and substantiate your opinion with some facts, then we'll talk. >=20 > I've done a little poking around. As of right now, I think that the=20 > registering takes a huge amount of time inside of a function called=20 > "sortdeps" which may be found in /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/deps.c. That function certainly looks like it can be optimized. Kris --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGRgkyWry0BWjoQKURAqLWAJsG3ndPC3DfIjPUmWhTQBOYwMYtlwCghzpq HREXwOGNwboqPbJ3nC5/ZQM= =ZUu2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua--
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