From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 20:26:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A77A16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:26:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@freebsd.org) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCF943D49 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:25:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (c-24-130-213-251.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[24.130.213.251]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060207202555m1300sv42te>; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:25:56 +0000 Message-ID: <43E9024F.3040703@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:25:51 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060112) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Panagiotis Astithas References: <43D610B6.5080008@FreeBSD.org> <43DE40FE.6000507@ebs.gr> <43DE6C65.9040306@FreeBSD.org> <43DE7652.9050807@ebs.gr> <43DF346B.407@FreeBSD.org> <43DF40BC.4060600@ebs.gr> <43E2B3A6.9060508@FreeBSD.org> <43E2B530.4050500@FreeBSD.org> <20060203065504.GA3857@weller-fahy.com> <43E31808.6070205@FreeBSD.org> <20060203111911.GA22446@hal.ebs.gr> <43E84A10.2050201@FreeBSD.org> <43E86940.7070302@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <43E86940.7070302@ebs.gr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New /bin/sh based script to manage ports 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: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:26:00 -0000 Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > I was referring to questions like, 'update port X? [n]' You should only get that message once, if you use a glob pattern with -r, such as 'portmaster -r gnutls'. > and 'delete foo.tgz? [n]'. That shouldn't happen if you use the -d or -D flags. If it is happening, it's a bug, and I'd appreciate you letting me know how you got there. > I figured, since I asked for a '-rd' update, this was > redundant. It is not very annoying, unless you have a few hundred ports > to update. Although, given your advice above, I will be doing it less > often. I should also confess that I'm contemplating a completely > non-interactive invocation of portmaster from sysutils/bpm or similar, > where such prompts would be prohibitive. Well, that'd be fine, let me know when you've thought that out more, and I'll be glad to work with you on it. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection