"make index" shows missing port directory

[Chris Rees]

On 11 June 2012 08:57, Alfred Bartsch <bartsch at dssgmbh.de> wrote:
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> Am 08.06.2012 22:23, schrieb Chris Rees:
>> On Jun 8, 2012 7:10 PM, "Palle Girgensohn" <girgen at freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> Chris Rees skrev:
>>>> On 8 June 2012 08:15, Alfred Bartsch <bartsch at dssgmbh.de>
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>>>>> Hi,
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>>> ...
>>>>> Adding this missing entry to the portstree should solve this
>>>>> issue. To avoid such problems in the future, it would IMHO be
>>>>> preferable to have only one port
>>>>> (/usr/ports/databases/p5-DBD-mysql), which is able to handle
>>>>> all mysql versions, similar to p5-DBD-Pg.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, I'm looking at moving p5-DBD-Pg to versioned ports,
>>>> since it is less unpredictable to install a versioned port, the
>>>> autodetection logic is messy and packages are not built for any
>>>> but the default version.
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>
>>> That is partly true, but it is also strange to have a versioned
>>> port where there is no difference other than the dependency?
>>>
>>
>> Oops, haha, I remember looking at it and also thinking what you
>> just said.  Sorry for the noise.
>>
>> Alfred, there actually is a port databases/p5-DBD-mysql which is
>> the only one that ports should depend on (I had this conversation
>> with Alex Dupre IIRC, the maintainer of mysql).
>>
>> I'll do a quick scan for ports depending on the versioned ports and
>> get PRs in.
>>
>> Chris
>
> Thank you for taking care of this. I really would appreciate to have
> only one port as a BDB - MySQL interface.
>
> There is another issue with make index:
>
> Generating INDEX-8 - please wait..
> ...
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: jpeg2ps-a4-1.9_2
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: openldap-sasl-client-2.4.31_1
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: a2ps-a4-4.13b_4
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: c2ps-a4-4.0_1
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: enscript-a4-1.6.4_5
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: html2ps-a4-1.0.b7,1
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: lprps-a4-2.5
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mp-a4-3.0.1
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: psutils-a4-1.17_2
>  Done.
>
> Related settings in /etc/make.conf:
>
> A4=yes
> PAPERSIZE=a4
>
> The index entries for the "-letter" ports are missing afterwards.
> IMHO this primarily happens because the "-letter" (slave-) ports are
> used as master ports for the "-a4" ports.
>
> Are these different ports related to paper format really needed
> anymore - in times of libpaper?
>
> If yes, I would vote for cleaning the ports tree:
> - - define "real" master ports (e.g. print/enscript, print/a2ps)
> - - change the -letter ports to "real" slave ports
> - - change the MASTERDIR entries in "-a4" and "-letterdj" ports
> - - take care that PKGNAMESUFFIX is set in the slave ports only
>
> BTW: There is a tool named p5-FreeBSD-Portindex written by Matthew
> Seaman, which creates a complete index file (=containing every port
> directory), not showing these weaknesses.
>
> The openldap duplicate entry results of setting port option "SASL".
> There is another issue with this port:
> The package origin is stored as net/openldap24-client even with option
> "SASL" set. This port is a dependancy of some kde ports. Every time
> I'm rebuilding one of these ports, portmaster tries to build
> openldap24-sasl-client, even if it is already installed.
> Manually changing the ORIGIN entry in /var/db/pkg solved this issue
> for me.

You have stumbled upon a known problem.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/162088

I'm not quite sure I agree with the closure however, since a solution
is not made, rather a workaround.

Chris