Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 21:45:02 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? Message-ID: <4646193E.5040503@gmx.de> 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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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> 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 >>> are also >>> registered as dependencies and so forth. Since all the commands >>> supplied by >>> ports walk dependencies recursively, as well as tools like >>> portupgrade, this >>> is unnecessary (that is, assuming that I understood bsd.port.mk >>> correctly). >>> >>> To abandon this behaviour would in my opinion only have advantages. >> >> Go and substantiate your opinion with some facts, then we'll talk. > > I've done a little poking around. As of right now, I think that the > registering takes a huge amount of time inside of a function called > "sortdeps" which may be found in /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/deps.c. > > Stephen > Thank you for looking into this. I was expecting to have to make experminental patches for the pkg tools as well as in bsd.port.mk to back my opinion. However I wouldn't have been able to start earlier than two weeks from now. And before that I want to look into some acpi_ibm and psm regressions I'm experiencing with stable.
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