Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 13:26:12 +0100 From: Werner Griessl <Werner.Griessl@uni-bayreuth.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The ports collection has some serious issues Message-ID: <c9190fd8-c04b-609e-4589-ab84f1d94c56@uni-bayreuth.de> In-Reply-To: <20161208121626.2fec0076@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <c5bc24cc-5293-252b-ddbc-1e94a17ca3a8@openmailbox.org> <20161208121626.2fec0076@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 12/08/16 13:16, RW via freebsd-ports wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 05:16:24 +0000 > Daniil Berendeev wrote: > >> 1) portmaster is not nice for the user. >> If it comes over an error even in one little tiny port that is a >> dependency for something bigger , it will abort its work and leave all >> the other ports not updated. So, if you try to to do `portmaster -af`, >> you should not forget `-m DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes` (we will return >> to this one later) and you must pray to God for not coming around a >> circular dependency or some port that would fail to deinstall its >> older version. You can't leave portmaster for a night to update all >> the needed ports and deal with broken ones in the morning, you need >> to cherry pick the broken ports and ignore them, and then try to deal >> with them. >> >> Although portmaster is not releated to the FreeBSD project and is an >> outside tool, there aren't any alternatives from the project itself. >> So use it or die. Not a nice situation. > > There's portupgrade. It doesn't stop on the first error but carries on > with ports that don't depend on any broken ports. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I use portsnap in combination with portupgrade Werner -- Werner Grießl D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany Universitaet Bayreuth Tel.: +49 921 55 2685 IT-Servicezentrum/Netze NW2 3.2.U1.143
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