Branches – add a new port automagically

The tracking of branches has turned out to be more involved than I thought. Many functions are already branch-aware and return / do the right thing. Tonight, I tried my recent idea of using head to get the slave ports for a given master port on a branch. So far, that works. The hard part now is dealing with a slave port on a branch which had not yet had any commits on that branch.

First, FreshPorts takes action only upon recent of a commit. If a file has been created by a repo copy, then FreshPorts knows nothing about it.

That’s bad news for branches, which are similar to a repo-copy in concept.

Compare these two URLs:

  1. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile
  2. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/branches/2016Q2/sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile

You will see revision 412349 on both pages.

Ideally, FreshPorts would do it’s own internal equivalent of a repocopy when it sees the 2016Q2 branch created, but in the current database design, that would duplicate the content of head for each branch, four times a year. That’s not a good approach.

The current system of adding new elements (each file in a commit is an element, e.g. /ports/branches/2016Q2/sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile) is based upon processing a commit. Each commit has an associated revision number. Thus, when adding a new element, we add a reference to that revision name. This won’t work for the situation we have under consideration.

I think the new approach needs a function such as: $port->CreatePortOnBranch($category_name, $port_name, $CommitBranch); which will take all the elements until a given point in head and duplicate them on a branch. This seems to be the easiest solution so far. I think I can easier create a store procedure which pulls back all children under a given point in the tree.

Using the recursion query I created a few days ago as a starting point, it only took me a few minute to create this query:

WITH RECURSIVE all_descendents AS (
  SELECT id, name, parent_id, directory_file_flag, status
    FROM element
    WHERE id = (select pathname_id('/ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/'))
  UNION
  SELECT E.id, E.name, E.parent_id, E.directory_file_flag, E.status
    FROM element E
    JOIN all_descendents AD
      ON (E.parent_id = AD.id)
)
   SELECT id, name, parent_id, directory_file_flag, status, element_pathname(id) AS pathname
      FROM all_descendents
     WHERE status = 'A'
 ORDER BY pathname;

   id   |              name               | parent_id | directory_file_flag | status |                                 pathname                                 
--------+---------------------------------+-----------+---------------------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 205194 | bacula-server                   |       218 | D                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server
 205195 | Makefile                        |    205194 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile
 475011 | Makefile.common                 |    205194 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/Makefile.common
 212250 | distinfo                        |    205194 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/distinfo
 212251 | files                           |    205194 | D                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files
 240895 | bacula-dir.in                   |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/bacula-dir.in
 240896 | bacula-fd.in                    |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/bacula-fd.in
 240897 | bacula-sd.in                    |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/bacula-sd.in
 212252 | chio-bacula                     |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/chio-bacula
 682189 | patch-src_console_Makefile.in   |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/patch-src_console_Makefile.in
 682190 | patch-src_dird_Makefile.in      |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/patch-src_dird_Makefile.in
 682191 | patch-src_filed_Makefile.in     |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/patch-src_filed_Makefile.in
 682192 | patch-src_qt-console_bat.pro.in |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/patch-src_qt-console_bat.pro.in
 682193 | patch-src_stored_Makefile.in    |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/patch-src_stored_Makefile.in
 682194 | patch-src_tools_Makefile.in     |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/patch-src_tools_Makefile.in
 352748 | pkg-deinstall.client.in         |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/pkg-deinstall.client.in
 352749 | pkg-deinstall.server.in         |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/pkg-deinstall.server.in
 352750 | pkg-install.client.in           |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/pkg-install.client.in
 352751 | pkg-install.server.in           |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/pkg-install.server.in
 262399 | pkg-message.client.in           |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/pkg-message.client.in
 262400 | pkg-message.server.in           |    212251 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/files/pkg-message.server.in
 205198 | pkg-plist                       |    205194 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/pkg-plist
 205199 | pkg-plist.client                |    205194 | F                   | A      | /ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server/pkg-plist.client
(23 rows)

Comparing this to a find in the ports tree:

$ find . | sort 
.
./Makefile
./Makefile.common
./distinfo
./files
./files/bacula-barcodes
./files/bacula-dir.in
./files/bacula-fd.in
./files/bacula-sd.in
./files/chio-bacula
./files/patch-src_console_Makefile.in
./files/patch-src_dird_Makefile.in
./files/patch-src_filed_Makefile.in
./files/patch-src_qt-console_bat.pro.in
./files/patch-src_stored_Makefile.in
./files/patch-src_tools_Makefile.in
./files/pkg-deinstall.client.in
./files/pkg-deinstall.server.in
./files/pkg-install.client.in
./files/pkg-install.server.in
./files/pkg-message.client.in
./files/pkg-message.server.in
./pkg-descr
./pkg-plist
./pkg-plist.client

That’s close enough.

I think the pseudo code for creating the port on the branch will be:

ListOfFiles = GetFilesFor('/ports/head/sysutils/bacula-server');
for file in ${Files}
do
  NewFile = replace('^/ports/head/', '/ports/branches/2016Q2/', ${file});
  AddToElementTable(${NewFile});
done

NewPort(''/ports/branches/2016Q2/sysutils/bacula-server');

Again, I’ll think on it. I’m too tired to even review what I wrote above…

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