From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 06:14:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616C9106566C for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:14:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from terry@sucked-in.com) Received: from mail.sucked-in.com (got.sucked-in.com [64.251.22.156]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2580F8FC16 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from terry@sucked-in.com) Received: from localhost (got.sucked-in.com [64.251.22.156]) by mail.sucked-in.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F101CCDB; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:13:58 +1000 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sucked-in.com Received: from mail.sucked-in.com ([64.251.22.156]) by localhost (mail.sucked-in.com [64.251.22.156]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6-JBtWxTbPF6; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:13:58 +1000 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (220.253-207-199.VIC.netspace.net.au [220.253.207.199]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sucked-in.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5833F1CC50; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:13:57 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4850BE98.8090104@sucked-in.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:13:44 +1000 From: Terry Sposato Organization: http://www.sucked-in.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <48500C9E.7090802@commit.it> <48501820.1030206@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <48501820.1030206@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig34BFA4D4587F245512DEA63B" Cc: FreeBSD - Ports , Angelo Turetta Subject: Re: portmaster: upgrade using local packages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:14:00 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig34BFA4D4587F245512DEA63B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Doug Barton wrote: > Angelo Turetta wrote: >> I'm evaluating portmaster: I cannot find an option to use pre-built=20 >> packages for upgrading. >=20 > At this time there is no such option, and I haven't been able to carve = > out the time to work on it. I noted in your message that you've already= =20 > discovered the -g option. For your particular situation it would=20 > certainly be conceivable to hack up a quick and dirty script of some=20 > sort to force updates on the "client" machines for which you have new=20 > packages, but it's certainly not an ideal solution. >=20 > I am interested in adding this feature, so if someone is interested in = > sponsoring the work .... :) >=20 >=20 > Doug >=20 Hi Doug, I have only contributed a couple of ports to FreeBSD so far and would=20 like to help in any way I can. What exactly would the sponsor need to=20 provide for you to work on something like this? --=20 Regards, Terry Sposato terry@sucked-in.com http://www.sucked-in.com GnuPG Key : 0xB7643BC8 Fingerprint: EE92 D9E1 C98E 759F 5991 DFF6 70CE 8936 B764 3BC8 --------------enig34BFA4D4587F245512DEA63B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkhQvpgACgkQcM6JNrdkO8hDRwCfdl30WX/jvuEKpGfBtoOeo6uX IV8AnRWFUWjAtufQtsCSOS1wkyEC5Xge =N3DB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig34BFA4D4587F245512DEA63B--