poudriere distfiles - explain the process

[Bryan Drewery]

On 10/10/2013 5:00 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I've run poudriere distclean -n.
> It took about an hour.
> All the time /usr/ports/distfiles was empty,
> which was confirmed at the end:
> 
> *skip*
> 
> OME}})
> make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> clang: not found
> make: "/pdr/ports/lang/v8/Makefile" line 24: warning: Couldn't read shell's output for "clang --version | /usr/bin/head -1 | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/.*clang version \([0-9]\)\.\([0-9]\).*/\1\2/'"
> make: "/pdr/ports/mail/p5-Sendmail-Milter/Makefile" line 22: warning: Couldn't read shell's output for "/usr/local/bin/perl5.16.3 -V:usethreads | /usr/bin/awk '/define/ { print "define"; exit }'"
> 
> ====>> Gathering list of actual distfiles
> ====>> No stale distfiles to cleanup
> # 
> 
> So what was it doing all this time?
> I think I probably misunderstand
> the purpose of "poudriere distclean".
> It's not just checking all exising
> files under /usr/ports/distfiles
> to see which are outdated, is it?
> It's traversing the whole of the
> ports tree, right? Why?

It is looking at every port's Makefile you specify and then comparing to
the distfiles you have. Perhaps it can be optimized more.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Anton


-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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