port register/unregister hogs up resources and takes forever

Mikhail Teterin mi+kde at aldan.algebra.com
Mon Sep 26 20:22:42 PDT 2005


On Monday 26 September 2005 06:58 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
= Just to let you know, I tested your patch with sysutils/portmanager by
= deleting a random few dependencies of gnome2 then running "portmanager
= -u" to see if they would be found and reinstalled. Portmanager makes
= extensive use of "make all-depends-list" to find missing ports and the
= test passed with your changes.

Thanks for confirmation.

= Keep in mind though, it also works fine with the original bsd.port.mk.

The original not only uses A LOT more resources for each run (spawning
dozens of make processes), it also misses some dependencies. For
example, print/teTeX will often be missed, because print/teTeX-base
will already be on the list...

	-mi




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