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Subject: Re: "portmaster -o" behaves a little strangely (IMHO)
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On 01/24/2012 13:18, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> Yes, using origin designators in both places worked.  Is this an
> unwritten requirement in the case of the -o option?

No, usually it works with the package name as the second argument (or
even a glob pattern as long as it resolves to a unique package name).
Like I said, the way that the ports framework handles gcc seems to do
things that confuse portmaster. I'm not saying that it's doing anything
wrong, it's just different.


Doug

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