Re: Extraneous dependencies in bind920

Moin Rahman <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:00:13 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> On Mar 12, 2026, at 19:22, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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

I think I mistyped something:

.if ${.CURDIR:M*/dns/*}
OPTIONS_UNSET+=DOCS
.endif

This should work.

Kind regards,
Moin
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