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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: portmaster-1.9
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Eric wrote:
> i wish portmaster either didnt bomb when a file was 
> missing or there was a knob to allow skipping of files when tarring up 
> the old port. 

Portmaster calls pkg_create to do this, so that's either going to 
succeed or fail. If it fails, then the user can do as you suggest and 
skip the backup package, or try to remedy it in other ways. But 
portmaster should not try to do the thinking for the user.

> you should be able to use the flag that prevents the port 
> backup (-B) and it should work for ya.

hth,

Doug

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