Tentative feature request

[Philip M. Gollucci]

Really easy way to do this is keep your list of leap ports since you
seem to know what they are.

delete from build_ports, port_depencdies where build_id = x

for p in list;
 addport
done

100% everytime, no fancy logic



On 10/18/11 08:29, Matt Dawson wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 Oct 2011 07:57:15 Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:44:29 +0100
>>
>> Matt Dawson <matt at chronos.org.uk> wrote:
>>> On Monday 17 Oct 2011 17:01:02 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>>> On 10/17/11 9:25 AM, Matt Dawson wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> 	Is there an easy way to implement something akin to
>>>>> 	pkg_cutleaves
>>>>>
>>>>> on a tinderbox? I'm finding that I have all manner of cruft
>>>>> in my builds that were once relied upon by other ports, only
>>>>> to fall by the wayside as those ports got superseded or
>>>>> became orphaned. Removing the leaf ports is easy; removing
>>>>> their then useless dependencies is a adventure in SQL and
>>>>> much trial and error.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just and idea...
>>>
>>> Meh, dyslexic fingers. *An* idea...
>>>
>>>> tc tbcleanup is a good thing to run after a tinderbuild.  This
>>>> can give you a cleaner environment and recover quite a bit of
>>>> disk space.
>>>
>>> True and I do so, although disk space isn't my overriding concern
>>> at this point. What concerns me is the time taken to build
>>> unnecessary ports by leaving leftover dependencies in place.
>>> Something like pkg_cutleaves could cull the leftovers and
>>> streamline future builds by getting rid of, for example, libs
>>> that are no longer required.
>>
>> Umm? The build is reset to pristine each time.
> 
> Right, I'm obviously not making my point clear. Say you add, for 
> example, the KDE-SC metaport to your desktop build. Now, somewhere 
> down the line you stop using KDE and migrate to Enlightenment. You 
> ./tc rmPort -d x11/kde4. That still leaves all the dependencies that 
> you no longer need being built every time you run a tinderbuild and 
> wasting (FSVO wasting) time compiling things you don't need. My tindy 
> makes packages for use on my networks as well as testing ports that I 
> maintain. Building things I don't need is a waste of CPU cycles.
> 
> What I'd like is a way to rmPort kde4 *AND* all its dependencies that 
> are no longer needed for other leafnode (leafnode being things that 
> aren't dependencies, not $PORTSDIR/news/leafnode) ports. I believe 
> there's a table in the SQL framework that records deps, but it does so 
> with port numbers which makes manual extraction a chore. Something 
> like ./tc rmPort -r -d x11/kde4 where -r = remove dependencies no 
> longer used by any other port, i.e. if there are no more entries in 
> its row in the deps table once the leaf port is removed. Is that any 
> clearer?
> 
> For the record, KDE-SC was pulled out of my behind as an example of a 
> port with huge reams of pull-in deps. I use it on my desktops as the 
> preferred DM, YMMV.
> 
> 
> 
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