[HEADSUP] portmaster/portupgrade support for new features

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 07:27:10PM +0200, Matthieu Volat wrote:
> 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.
> 
No not yet because we are writing for portmaster/portupgrade to handle that to
commit them. How ever I can provide a patch so anyone willing to work on that
will be able to test.

Best regards,
Bapt
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