> Julien Laffaye (jlaffaye@) and I, helped by Philippe Pepiot (huge > contributor) have been working since the end of the last GSoC on a > rewrite of pkg_install.
Fantastic! it has been necessary since a looong time. > - the register command can analyse elf files when registering a new port > to discover forgotten dependencies if necessary. (done in alpha using > libelf) Fantastic! the dependencies as mentioned directly in Makefiles by ports maintainers were not always perfect. > In term of technology we decided to use a sqlite3 database, and to > prevent potential trolling, sqlite3 is used in it's amalgamation form > which means it is incorporated in the code sources (as recommanded by > sqlite developpers like a statically linked library) on build we only > activate the features we need in sqlite. Fantastic! at least using something fast and tested instead of some half-brewed solutions. I have just taken a look at the table "packages", it seems that it does not contain dependency information, but you can discover it through analyze_elf, where do you store it? This project is the thing i had dreamed about. -- Michel TALON _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
