Re: official pkg repo with WITHOUT_X11=true

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2014-05-29 08:42, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> >
> >> On May 29, 2014, at 4:19, David Chisnall <theraven_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 29 May 2014, at 02:23, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As for skipping unneeded ports the best I can do is '-a' or "Build it
> all".
> >>> If a port is only needed for WITH_X11 then an IGNORE should be added
> to it
> >>> when WITHOUT_X11 is set to prevent wasting time on it.
> >>
> >> We can probably do a bit better by looking at the complete dependency
> graph and removing any ports that have unconditional dependencies on X.
>  For a headless server, there's no reason to build any of the kde-* or
> gnome-* ports or, indeed, X itself.  I suspect that we could easily trim
> 2/3 of the build time by omitting ports that have a GUI, GUI toolkits, and
> so on.
> >
> > Yeah. My point was more that poudriere can't do that now and I would
> rather not add all that special-case logic to it. Clever make.conf logic
> might be able to do it.
> >
> >>
> >> Longer term, we may be able to share the build time a bit.  Ports which
> don't have a WITHOUT_X11 flag and don't unconditionally depend on X11 can
> potentially be pre-seeded from the normal package build (if we can identify
> them).  That only leaves the ports that actually have build-time
> conditional X support to build in the no-Xorg run.
> >
> > Yup! I have a patch for that in the works.
> >
>
> That would be a great improvement for the 'sets' feature in poudriere.
> Almost all of my different sets have some overlap. Although this would
> either require the 'queue' system you are working on, to say build sets
> X, Y, and Z, and if there is any overlap share it. Or, augment the set
> feature with an additional flag to specify a 'parent' set or something,
> -z myset -Z commonset to tell it an already built set where it can steal
> packages from.
>
> >>
> >> David
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> --
> Allan Jude
>
> Having a "parent" set would be nice, yes. I maintain two repos for several
FreeBSD-versions. Being able to pull some of the deps from packages instead
of blindingly building would be nice.

Best regards
Andreas