Hi all Some changes are coming to the ports, the diff is rather simple, but the change of behaviour is worse notifying all maintainers:
Currently and since very long the dependency registration in the ports tree is based on the origin of the packages. which makes it unfriendly with FLAVORS and Subpackages. The ports tree has been changed in the branch https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/projects/rework-dependency-registration/ so now it basically do the same kind of mechanism which is done during the different -depends targets, which means it is passing through all the LIB_DEPENDS resolving the dependency pattern into a filename: libintl.so -> /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8.1.2 then from that path determine the package which should be registered in the dependencies it is walking through all the run depends resolving the dependency pattern the following way: if the pattern is a package schema: pkgconf>0 then it tries to figure out which package should be registered in the dependencies via: pkg info -Eg "pattern" if the pattern is a word it tries to lookup in the PATH for a file and then which package this files belongs to. if the package is an absolute path it will depends on the package this file belong to. While this change sounds a bit simple it is very important, because it fixes people trying to build twice the same py-something port with python3 and python2 ending up with wrong dependency registration. It also allows so start working on FLAVORS and SUBPACKAGES for real (more to come in that area soon). What will change from User PoV: nothing What will change from Maintainer PoV, very few, except that if the dependency pattern is a file or an element to be resolved as a file please ensure that the said file belongs to a package (versus is being generated during post-install scripts). Last side effect it also prepare the way to be able to depend on provides and depend correctly on "smart dep" aka "perl5>=5.18.2_3<5.20" This change is being exp-run and will be committed as soon as it is stable enough Best regards, Bapt
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