Synth and circular dependencies

[Don Lewis]

On 21 Aug, To: mueller6724 at bellsouth.net wrote:
> On 22 Aug, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> Again, I am responding from the FreeBSD mailing list web interface
>> because that is faster than reaching my inbox.
>> 
>> from Don Lewis truckman at FreeBSD.org
>> Mon Aug 21 23:16:36 UTC 2017
>> 
>>> > I went to /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto , ran "make all-depends-list",
>>> > and one line that showed up was
>>> > /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto
>>  
>>> > depends on itself.
>> 
>>> I don't see that here with default option settings:
>> 
>>> %cd /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto && make all-depends-list | grep
>>> textproc
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/libxml2
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/libxslt
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-xsl
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/xmlcatmgr
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/docbook
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-sgml
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/iso8879
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/docbook-xml
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/xmlcharent
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/sdocbook-xml
>> 
>>> > Otherwise, on newer system, I see circular dependencies running
>>> > "make all-depends-list", finding textproc/xmlto depended on
>>> > graphics/gd and vice versa.
>> 
>>> I don't see the former:
>> 
>>> %cd /usr/ports/textproc/xmlto && make all-depends-list | grep
>>> graphics
>>> [nada]
>> 
>>> or the latter:
>> 
>>> %cd /usr/ports/graphics/gd && make all-depends-list | grep textproc 
>>> /usr/ports/textproc/expat2
>> 
>>> This is with the head branch of the ports tree, revision r448344.
>> 
>>> Problems like this with the default option settings tend to get found
>>> and fixed fairly quickly because this will cause failures on the
>>> package build cluster and will spam the maintainer's mailbox with
>>> build failure messages.
>> 
>> I didn't think I went overboard selecting options, but I did want
>> documentation.  Maybe that screwed up, or the ports tree was not up to
>> it.
>> 
>> I suppose I could move (mv) /var/db/ports to /var/db/ports2
>> temporarily just to see what happens when I "make all-depends-list".
>> 
>> I really need to be able to see the options in a better way than the
>> FreeBSD ports framework allows, like in a file /etc/mk.conf (pkgsrc)
>> or USE= ... as in /etc/make.conf (Gentoo portage).
>>
>> Dialog4ports is better than the previous dialog but not as good as
>> seeing in a file mk.conf or make.conf .
> 
> 
> It is possible to set the options for ports in /etc/make.conf.  That is
> how I handle it would poudriere which looks for make.conf files in

s/would/with/

> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d and can use make.conf files that are specific
> to each jail, ports tree and ports set (poudriere -z option to specify
> the latter).
> 
> Specifying the options in make.conf also makes it easier to set options
> globally for all all of the ports that you build so they are consistent.
> For instance I specify these options globally:
> 
> OPTIONS_SET=CUPS APPLET OPENBLAS OBLAS SZIP LETTER GUILE2 GSSAPI_NONE KRB_NONE
> OPTIONS_UNSET=GUILE1 NETLIB REFERENCE GSSAPI_BASE KRB_BASE KERBEROS
> 
> Port-specific options can be set like this:
> 
> graphics_gimp-help_SET=EN
> graphics_gimp-help_UNSET=ALL
> 
> Back when I still used portupgrade, I found that dialog4ports got to be
> really frustrating.
> 
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