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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:21:03 -0500
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portmaster some_port vs. portmaster 'some_port*'
Message-ID:  <4ad871310901141121x24cd461bm54d8b99da787d5a6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090114203941.7516d639@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
References:  <20090114203941.7516d639@it.buh.tecnik93.com>

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Maybe I'm not reading the man page correctly, but I would expect
> portmaster, if invoked with a wild-card, to:
> - first update the dependencies of the ports matched by the 'some_port*' it
> gets on the command line
> - then to update the ports matched by said wild-card in dependency order.
>
> At least #1 above doesn't seem to happen for wild-card invocation, but
> it happens when invoked with one or two ports:
> http://people.tecnik93.com/~itetcu/FreeBSD/errors/portmaster/
>
> Bug? Feature? :-)
>

If that were to work, I'd imagine the '*' wildcard would need to be escaped.

IE: portmaster 'someport\*'

Note: I do not use portmaster, so this is a guess, not a solution.


-- 
Glen Barber



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