Issues with the port dependency table

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 12:14 -0700, Ade Lovett wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:46 , Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > I agree, and this is why I didn't do this earlier.  That said, this  
> > table isn't authoritative, as it will only used by external tools  
> > (i.e. TB still relies on the Makefile generated at build time).  As  
> > for rescan, addPort IS a rescan.  It can be run on a port already in  
> > the datastore, and all of that port's properties will be updated  
> > (including the dependencies).
> 
> Perhaps we should, for the sake of completeness, add:
> 
> 	tc rescanPorts -b <buildname> | -a
> 
> which would pull a list of ports on a per-build (or everything) basis,  
> and call addPort, to keep the table up to date?
> 
> As you said, since the table is not (yet?) used by tinderbox itself,  
> it's not so much of an issue, but I think we should consider at least  
> providing the mechanism to more easily keep it up to date.
> 
> Thoughts?  Should be trivial enough to code up, and we may find  
> ourselves actually using the table in future.

I added the command.  I pushed the port listing into the Perl code so we
only need to build the MakeCache once.

Joe

> 
> -aDe
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