cvs commit: ports/misc Makefile ports/misc/instant-tinderbox Makefile pkg-descr

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:02:09AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:56:04PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:11:37AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > I think this port is a bad idea.  It'll take a fairly long time to
> > > build on pointyhat from all the pkg_adds (and it will be right at the
> > > end of the package builds since it depends on everything else, so the
> > > whole build will end up waiting for it), and it's not useful for
> > > anyone apart from users of marcus' tinderbox scripts.  Therefore it
> > > should be reimplemented there instead.
> > 
> > If I add a .ifdef to it which prevents it from being attempted to
> > build on non-tinderbox systems, is that a good solution? Or does
> > the packaging system ignore IGNOREs?
> 
> No, it respects IGNORE..but I still don't see why it should be a port
> instead of a small shell script included with the tinderbox.

Because a port understands that if I do USE_OPENLDAP, it will come
up with the version of net/openldap which is currently defined
in the ports framework, and if I do USE_PGSQL, it will come up with
the version of databases/pgsql-xx-server which is currently defined
in the ports framework.

With an external script I have to somehow find out what the current
versions for the USE_OPENLDAP and USE_PGSQL variables are. And
besides invoken the powers of Make I have no idea how to do it
properly.

Edwin

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