[HEADSUP] portmaster/portupgrade support for new features

[Matthieu Volat]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:58:02 +0200
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:22:27AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > hi all,
> > 
> > A couple of new features are coming to the ports tree. The first of which has
> > landed in the ports tree and should not be used before a while, still before we
> > start using it, it would be a very good idea to bring support for it to
> > portmaster/portupgrade. (I have already done the change in poudriere and it will
> > be in te next version.)
> > 
> > So since recently we can remove the ${PORTSDIR} from all the dependency lines.
> > (Please do not use that syntax before all the tools are able to handle it!)
> > 
> > Aka BLA_DEPENDS= pattern:${PORTSDIR}/category/port can now become
> > pattern:category/ports
> > 
> > I haven't checked portmaster/portupgrade code so I have no idea if they will
> > support that out of box or if they will need some changes.
> > 
> > I would really appreciate to see people testing that and provide patches if
> > necessary so that the day we adopt this syntax those tools are already ready to
> > use it ootb.
> > 
> > FYI: https://github.com/freebsd/portmaster and
> > https://github.com/freebsd/portupgrade
> > 
> > Later more changes will be necessary to support upcoming VARIANTS (formerly
> > known as FLAVOURS) and sub packages.
> > 
> > This first step would allow you to step into the code of those tools before the
> > having to deal with more intrusive changes :)
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Bapt
> 
> Here is a reminder on help needed. We do really need to get this feature in the
> ports tree to be able to step further in flexible dependencies (hear
> provides/requires) and VARIANTS/FLAVORS and subpackages.
> 
> If one cares about those tools, please make them work without ${PORTSDIR}
> information.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt

Hello,

Are those features already present somehow in ports?

The first thing I see is a failure because calling commands
such as "make build-depends-list" in port directories in which I
removed ${PORTSDIR} from LIB_DEPENDS failing.

Regards,


--
Matthieu Volat <mazhe at alkumuna.eu>
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