databases/pglessog, databases/pg_rman problems after the last bsd.database.mk update

[Chris Rees]

On 6 March 2012 20:50, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 March 2012 10:25, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I noticed this when building indexes.  Seems that databases/pglesslog
>> and databases/pg_rman are unhappy as a consequence of the last
>> bsd.database.mk update, but only if postgresql (other than version 8.3)
>> is already installed:
>>
>> Initially -- with postgresql-client-9.0.7_1 installed:
>>
>> databases/pglesslog:# make -V PGSQL_VER
>>
>> databases/pglesslog:# make -V BUILD_DEPENDS
>> /nonexistent:/usr/ports/databases/postgresql-server:build
>> gmake:/usr/ports/devel/gmake
>>
>>
>> PGSQL_VER ends up empty, causing the BUILD_DEPENDS to refer to a
>> non-existent 'postgresql-server' port.
>>
>> Simply deleting the postgresql client ...
>>
>> databases/pglesslog:# pkg delete -x postgresql
>> The following packages will be deinstalled:
>>        postgresql-client-9.0.7_1
>>
>> The deinstallation will save 8 MB
>>
>> Proceed with deinstalling packages [y/N]: y
>> Deinstalling postgresql-client-9.0.7_1... done
>>
>>
>> ... fixes the INDEX:
>>
>> databases/pglesslog:# make -V PGSQL_VER
>> 83
>> databases/pglesslog:# make -V BUILD_DEPENDS
>> /nonexistent:/usr/ports/databases/postgresql83-server:build
>> gmake:/usr/ports/devel/gmake
>>
>> Since this is dependent on postgresql !8.3 already being installed I
>> guess it wouldn't have shown up in testing.  It seems that these are the
>> only two ports affected.
>
> Yes-- these ports will have IGNORE set for them, so the INDEX entry
> will be bogus anyway.

I meant to add-- now the preferred way to depend on the server is to use:

USE_PGSQL= server

(also still depends on -client, but then so does -server)

I'll work on getting server:extract to work-- looks popular.

Chris