Checking DEPENDS/IGNORE based on OSVERSION

[dlangille]

Case in point: graphics/drm-kmod

$ make OSVERSION=1301000 -V RUN_DEPENDS 
/boot/modules/drm.ko:graphics/drm-fbsd13-kmod

$ make OSVERSION=1300000 -V RUN_DEPENDS 
gpu-firmware-kmod>=20220511:graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod

The RUN_DEPENDS varies depending upon which release you are running.

This would require:

• The database does not have OSVERSION involved in DEPENDS - that table would need modification
• What OSVERSION values get uses for this?
• Where are they obtained from?
• When new OSVERSION values come in, when do you start using them?
• What do you do with old entries in the database?
• If all the DEPENDS are the same for each OSVERSION, do you store a single set of values?

This could be applied to all DEPENDS: BUILD, LIB, RUN, etc.

It also applies to IGNORE, BROKEN.

This is not just adding another column to a table.

EDIT: This is not a priority for completion. There is a high work/risk/reward ratio.

[dlangille]

Zirias said: another "solution" could be to add a disclaimer in your templates somewhere: "Freshports shows ports as seen on a 12.3-RELEASE system on amd64"

[dlangille]

This affects:

• about 137 ports which contain OSVERSION
• 1045 ports referencing BROKEN
• 464 ports referencing IGNORE

as found via grep -rl IGNORE * (for example).

This count doesn't try to figure out ports which get their values from other ports.

[dlangille]

This also doesn't try to consider variations dependent upon ARCH

[dlangille]

Let's say that's 1600 ports and that there are 38,000 ports.

This affects 4% of ports, roughly. Most definitely less because not ALL of the above indicate version specific instances.

[grahamperrin]

Case in point: graphics/drm-kmod

For posterity:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220807184534/https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-kmod/#dependencies around one month before this issue
• https://web.archive.org/web/20221211080642/https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-kmod/#dependencies today.

In parallel, if I understand #398 (comment) correctly:

• this week's update to graphics/drm-510-kmod does not trigger a change to https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-kmod/#dependencies
• an update to graphics/drm-kmod will trigger a change

– freebsd/freebsd-ports#140 and https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37672 are for a typo (and more) in the package description for graphics/drm-kmod.