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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