Remove options from poudriere option files for ports which were removed in the port

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 5:31 PM, John Marino <freebsdml at marino.st> wrote:

> On 7/3/2016 19:26, John Marino wrote:
>
>> Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Matthias Fechner <idefix <at>
>>>
>> fechner.net> wrote:
>>
>>> > Dear all,
>>> >
>>> > it seems that poudriere can only add new options to its own options
>>> > tracking, but cannot remove options that where removed from the
>>>
>> Makefile
>>
>>> > of the port.
>>> >
>>> > Concrete example is for mail/postfix
>>> >
>>> > The option SPF was removed (2016-02-28):
>>> > https://www.freshports.org/mail/postfix/
>>> >
>>> > But if I execute:
>>> > poudriere options -j 103amd64 -f 103amd64-pkglist
>>> >
>>> > it will not remove the option from the options file:
>>> > 103amd64-options/mail_postfix/options
>>> >
>>> > Is there a possibility to clean up all the option files without
>>>
>> starting
>>
>>> > again at zero with:
>>> > poudriere options -c -j 103amd64 -f 103amd64-pkglist
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Gruß
>>> > Matthias
>>> >
>>>
>>> This is not a feature/bug of poudriere but of the ports system itself.
>>> There's no tracking of obsoleted or removed options and no clever
>>> methods to clean them up. It's only when you remove the options with
>>> 'make rmconfig' and rewrite them again trough the options dialog the
>>> obsoleted ones will be gone.
>>>
>>
>> This is incorrect.  There is a clever method available to clean these
>> up.  There is a script at Tools/scripts/redundant-opt-files.sh that is
>> used to identify saved options that are identical to the default
>> options.  It also identifies option files for ports that don't exist.
>> You can remove all the obsolete and redundant options files in a single
>> command, e.g. "/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/redundant-opt-files.sh | xargs
>> rm -rf" which I think is pretty clever.  But then again, I am biased.
>>
>>
> Hmm, I may have misunderstood what Matthias was asking for.  While
> Poudriere will not identify bad saved options files, ports-mgmt/synth will
> do this.
>
> One way to leverage this is to install synth and run "synth status
> everything" and all bad options files will be identified (printed to
> screen).
>
>
> John
>

Is this new? Using synth-1.41 I get "Invalid port origin: everything".
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