Patch to add package-smart target

Adam Martin adam at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
Fri May 18 18:20:35 UTC 2007


On 2007.02.21, at 00:47, Adam Martin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 	I wasn't sure who to send this to, but Benno Rice suggested ports@  
> and kris@, so I've done both.  I've created a patch for a target  
> that I've added to bsd.ports.mk (in /usr/ports/Mk/) a while back,  
> to fix what I consider a "problem" in package-recursive.  package- 
> recursive always re-builds a tarball for every package in the  
> dependancy chain, even if said tarball exists.  package-smart will  
> skip that step for all tarballs that already exist.  (It's not  
> perfect, but I thought somebody should look at it, and see what  
> they can do with it.)


	I have submitted a change-request PR for this.  Ports/112745, for  
those who wish to track it.

Thanks,

--
ADAM David Alan Martin

FreeBSD Hacker, TCSH Hacker, general UNIX coding
Author of AutoFS for FreeBSD 6.x
Filesystem and Storage Lab, SUNY Stony Brook



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