Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:50:35 +0100 From: Willy Picard <picard@kti.ae.poznan.pl> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster and BROKEN ports Message-ID: <20080326085035.GA1756@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> In-Reply-To: <47E97F0F.10900@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080325212146.GA32955@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> <47E97F0F.10900@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:39:11PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Willy Picard wrote: >> I would like to know if there is a smart way to ask portmaster to ignore BROKEN >> ports. Currently I added a +IGNOREME file to all BROKEN ports I have but I would >> like portmaster to automatically ignore these ports without the +IGNOREME file. > > Sorry, portmaster hasn't developed psychic abilities yet, so it can't know > for sure what you want to do with your broken ports vs. what all the other > portmaster users want to do with them. :) Well, I am not thinking about paranormal abilities for portmaster, I was rather thinking about a nice option (e.g. --ignore-broken) that would allow postmaster to ignore BROKEN ports during a "postmaster -a". Currently, I have the www/flock port installed. This port is marked as BROKEN (not by me, so this is not "my broken port" but "a broken port"). When I run "postmaster -a", postmaster exists before updating of ports because flock is broken. I therefore add a +IGNOREME file in the /var/db/pkg/flock-* dir. However, if the flock port is not marked BROKEN tomorrow, I will have to 1) detect this fact, 2) remove the +IGNOREME file. portupgrade simply ignores BROKEN ports during a "portupgrade -a". I am not even asking about a similar behaviour for portmaster. I wanted just to ask if an option allows to do the same. If no such an option exists, I think that its addition to the functionality of portmaster may be worth considering. Best regards, Willy Picard -- Willy Picard e-mail: picard@kti.ae.poznan.pl Dept. of Information Technology www: http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ The Poznan University of Economics tel: +48 61 848 05 49 Mansfelda 4, 60-854 Poznan, Poland fax: +48 61 848 38 40
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