From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 15 01:51:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B6EBF2 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7288F26FA for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:51:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9F1p5YU091856; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:51:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) with ESMTP id r9F1p4Qr091853; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:51:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:51:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Scott Ballantyne Subject: Re: Advice sought on Portmaster -Faf and deleted ports In-Reply-To: <20131014233539.56016.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> Message-ID: References: <20131013200236.7874.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <20131014174833.58154.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <20131014233539.56016.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:51:05 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:51:06 -0000 On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > > On Mon, 14 oct 2013, Warren Block wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote: >> >>>> >>>> What errors, exactly? >>> >>> Well, for example: >>> >>> portmaster -Faf >>> it starts to fetch a bunch of files >>> it finds a port which has been deleted, such as >>> linux-base-fc4 >>> and it says, "linux-base-fc4" has been deleted. >>> terminating >>> terminating >>> terminating >>> etc. >> >> That's correct. linux_base-fc4 is long gone (years), replaced by >> linux_base-f10. portmaster sees no way to upgrade that port, so >> evidently it quits. > > I understand why portmaster quits that port. It does seem like a bit > of over-kill to quit updating ALL ports because one is long > gone. Seems like it could do the others. Some of them. It could not update any ports that depend on missing ports, which conflicts with the "-a" meaning "all". >> If you have ports that far out of date, the upgrade process is going to >> be long. Ports where the system does not know the replacement will have >> to be handled manually. > > Actually, the last time I updated my ports was when I installed 9.0, > and I used the portmaster 'nuke all ports' method I was trying to > day. Since then, several dozen ports of been 'deleted' or 'renamed', > not just the linux_base-fc4. Seems in the case of ports which have > been renamed or replaced, this could in fact be simply automated in > most cases. I think it does handle renamed ports. Whether the ones it does not handle are due to missing functionality or because they are difficult or impossible to handle, don't know.