Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:58:20 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "portmaster --list-origins" question Message-ID: <201112290458.pBT4wK5t004301@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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I was in the process of preparing to upgrade from 7.4 to 8.2 (at last!),
when I encountered a possible problem. Following the portmaster man page's
suggestion to use portmaster's --list-origins option to produce a list of
installed ports in the form "category-dir/port-name-dir", I got a list that
was much shorter than expected. I use windowmaker as a window manager and
have quite a few windowmaker-related ports installed. Only one of those
related ports appeared in the portmaster output, and windowmaker itself was
absent, so I looked at the numbers next.
Script started on Wed Dec 28 22:39:21 2011
[hellas] 101 % nice +20 portmaster --list-origins > /tmp/ports.list
[hellas] 102 % wc -l /tmp/ports.list
782 /tmp/ports.list
[hellas] 103 % ls /var/db/pkg|wc -l
2035
[hellas] 104 % exit
exit
Script done on Wed Dec 28 22:41:27 2011
As you can see above, 1253 ports, or ~62% of those installed, are missing
from the portmaster output, whereas I had expected that *all* installed
ports would be listed.
Did I misunderstand something about the --list-origins option? Or have
I run into a bug? Any suggestions of how to proceed would be welcome.
Thanks!
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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