Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:34:24 +0100 From: Alberto Villa <villa.alberto@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster-with-package-support release candidate available for testing Message-ID: <201001041034.24937.villa.alberto@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B418876.2070005@FreeBSD.org> References: <4B159C5C.2090407@FreeBSD.org> <201001040300.41871.villa.alberto@gmail.com> <4B418876.2070005@FreeBSD.org>
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On Monday 04 January 2010 07:19:34 Doug Barton wrote:
> First, if you could start a new thread for each problem that would
> help me keep track of them.
of course! sorry, i'm used to have everything in only one big box :)
> Second, if you could write a brief
> explanation of what you see as the problem that would also help. While
> I'm sure what you pasted makes perfect sense to you, it's not always
> possible for me to recognize the problem when all I have are logs.
sorry here too
> That said, what I *think* you are reporting is the fact that
> portmaster seems to be confused between the local package repo that
> you've configured and the fact that it downloaded a newer version from
> the remote repo. If I'm right about that, what do you think portmaster
> should do in this case?
i'm reporting two errors, actually
the first one: pm is checking for the existence of the Latest/* package,
without considering its version... if Latest/* is found, pm tries to install
the All/* package, even if it's not there
second one: as you said, pm downloads the package from the web, but it
doesn't use that, and fails. this has worked with all the other downloaded
packages (i've installed all my ports with the configuration you can see in my
latest email, and i have plenty of packages - which were used - in the
portmaster-download/ dir), but not with this one: i think that it's because a
Latest/* package is already there, and then pm thinks it doesn't need to use
the downloaded one
> My assumption is that people who create local
> package repositories do so for a purpose, and I'm not sure what to do
> if those packages are not the latest versions.
from portmaster(8):
--local-packagedir=<path>
where local packages can be found, will fall back to fetching if no
local version exists.
this means that you should "fall back to fetching" - or building, if you can't
fetch
imho, the behaviour (limited to my configuration... but it's easy adaptable to
all the other options) should be:
1. check for the existence of the package locally (i would use All/* instead
of Latest/*, but i understand that you use it because of the --packages-if-
newer, so it's ok)
2. check for its version: correct -> 2a; wrong -> 2b
2a. install it
2b. try to download it from the web: found -> 3a; not found -> 3b
3a. download and install it
3b. build the port
that's it. sorry for being so annoying, i'm not asking to you to work harder
on portmaster... it's a great tool, and already working best than any other
one! i'm currently using the latest revision, and the new --packages-build
works flawlessly... thanks for implementing that :)
and sorry for my bug reports, too, i promise i'll be more useful ;)
--
Alberto Villa <villa.alberto@gmail.com>
http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/AlbertoVilla
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