On 1/25/24 08:18, Stefan Esser wrote:
Am 24.01.24 um 10:28 schrieb Luca Pizzamiglio:Hi porters!At the beginning of January, we merged the support to subpackages in the framework. Subpackage is the feature to create multiple packages from one build of one port. In other words, now it's possible to group files into multiple packages. This means that from one port it's possible to split the build into several packages. Some additional details are available in this lighting talk at EuroBSD 2023 (https://youtu.be/e-FUYbGNdBg?t=824 <https://youtu.be/e-FUYbGNdBg?t=824>).Hi Luca, [...] This implementation will break port dependencies, since there is no way a port can depend on a specific sub-package - there even is no way a non-default sub-package can be built without manual selection of the options that activate its creation. Dependencies stated in the port Makefile are converted into package dependencies that can be resolved by the "pkg" command, but that cannot be directly used to build and install the requested sub-package from a port. Has there been a general consensus that support for direct port building (without poudriere) will be abandoned? Ports that do not create sub-packages can still be depended on by other ports, but as critical dependencies have been depended to sub-packages a ever large fraction of ports will only build in poudriere.This change does also obviously break port management tools like portmaster,which took me significant effort to adapt to FLAVOR support (which also had been implemented without consideration for other tools than poudriere), and which I have been maintaining since then.
Stefan, many thanks here from one devoted portmaster user!
[...] As with FLAVORs, an implementation has been committed that lacks design and does not even attempt to support use-cases other than package building with poudriere.
Perhaps it's time for a new public FreeBSD mailing list: freebsd-disruptive-changes-coming-ready-or-...@freebsd.org so more people will have a chance to comment and contribute before any hard-to-reverse steps are taken. -- George
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