Re: Extraneous dependencies in bind920

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 05:38:33PM +0100, Moin Rahman wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Mar 12, 2026, at 17:37, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 05:06:16PM +0100, Moin Rahman wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Mar 12, 2026, at 16:32, Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hi!
> >>> 
> >>>>>> I just noticed that a poudriere build of dns/bind920 is compiling
> >>>>>> things like ghostscript and cups.... Is that necessary? Can it be
> >>>>>> prevented?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> This might help, please test:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> make config
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> DOCS=off
> >>>> 
> >>>> Apologies for being obtuse, is this part of the poudriere command
> >>>> or something done directly in /usr/ports?
> >>> 
> >>> This probably can be done in /usr/ports/dns/bind920.
> >>> 
> >>> I have not tested all the details, but if poudriere is set up properly,
> >>> it should write some entries to:
> >>> 
> >>> /var/db/ports/dns_bind920/options
> >>> 
> >>> which can be copied to
> >>> 
> >>> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/options/dns_bind920
> >>> 
> >>> to be picked up in the next poudriere run.
> >>> 
> >>>> As an aside, I'd like to
> >>>> have the man pages, it's the GUI-related material that seems a waste
> >>>> since this is for a headless server.
> >>> 
> >>> I have not analysed this in full detail, but I'm not sure man pages
> >>> and the rest can easily be seperatly build.
> >>> 
> >>>> As an aside, quite a few Linux programs seem to have no man page.
> >>>> It would be sad if FreeBSD went that route.
> >>> 
> >>> I agree, but this depends on the port and the nitty-gritty details
> >>> of the app itself.
> >>> 
> >>> -- 
> >>> [email protected]         +49 171 3101372                  Now what ?
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Easiest would be:
> >> 
> >> % echo "dns_bind920_UNSET+=DOCS >> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf
> >> 
> > 
> > Hmm, could one substitute
> > 
> > echo "dns_UNSET+=DOCS" >> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf
> > 
> > to make the setting apply to everything in /usr/ports/dns ?
> > 
> > Thanks for writing!
> > 
> > bob prohaska
> 
> No. What you are looking for is:
> 
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/dns}
> OPTIONS_UNSET+=DOCS
> .endif
> 

Something's  wrong. 
I have
# more /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/dns}
OPTIONS_UNSET+=DOCS
.endif

but

# tail bind.log
[00:16:53] [03] [00:00:00] Builder starting
[00:16:53] [04] [00:00:00] Builder starting
[00:20:49] [01] [00:03:57] Builder started
[00:20:49] [04] [00:03:56] Builder started
[00:20:49] [02] [00:03:56] Builder started
[00:20:49] [03] [00:03:56] Builder started
[00:20:49] [02] [00:00:00] Building graphics/poppler | poppler-25.10.0_1
[00:20:49] [01] [00:00:00] Building print/harfbuzz-icu | harfbuzz-icu-12.3.2
[00:20:49] [04] [00:00:00] Building print/texlive-texmf | texlive-texmf-20250308_1
[00:20:49] [03] [00:00:00] Building x11-toolkits/pango | pango-1.56.4_1

after restarting the poudriere bulk session. 

Need I go back and clean up in some fashion to extirpate existing
DOCS-dependent packages?

Actually, DOCS aren't what  to suppress: The need is to suppress
GUI-dependency, which imposes huge overhead and compatibility penalties.

Might there be a no-GUI switch somewhere in poudriere? 

Interestingly, a second identical host running the same command:
poudriere bulk -j main dns/bind920 dns/bind-tools > bind.log
eventually built both ports but failed to complete all the
GUI-related ports. That seems a bit odd. 

Thanks for writing,

bob prohsk