On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 07:27:10PM +0200, Matthieu Volat wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:58:02 +0200
> Baptiste Daroussin <b...@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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