Issues with the port dependency table

[Ade Lovett]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:46 , Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> I agree, and this is why I didn't do this earlier.  That said, this  
> table isn't authoritative, as it will only used by external tools  
> (i.e. TB still relies on the Makefile generated at build time).  As  
> for rescan, addPort IS a rescan.  It can be run on a port already in  
> the datastore, and all of that port's properties will be updated  
> (including the dependencies).

Perhaps we should, for the sake of completeness, add:

	tc rescanPorts -b <buildname> | -a

which would pull a list of ports on a per-build (or everything) basis,  
and call addPort, to keep the table up to date?

As you said, since the table is not (yet?) used by tinderbox itself,  
it's not so much of an issue, but I think we should consider at least  
providing the mechanism to more easily keep it up to date.

Thoughts?  Should be trivial enough to code up, and we may find  
ourselves actually using the table in future.

-aDe