Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:21:23 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: request for enhancment: portupgrade Message-ID: <20011210202123.P92148@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011210180912.B30626@squall.waterspout.com>; from will@csociety.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:09:12PM -0500 References: <20011210030804.Y92148@elvis.mu.org> <86vgff4dde.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20011210125858.A92148@elvis.mu.org> <20011210180912.B30626@squall.waterspout.com>
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* Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> [011210 17:11] wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:58:58PM -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > I think #2 is good, i mean, without -v i see something like..
> >
> > no need to upgrade foo-1.2.3
> > no need to upgrade bar-4.1
> > no need to upgrade baz-6.3.2
> > Cleaning aaa
> >
> > The cleaning of 'aaa' isn't for baz, what is it for? :)
>
> Right, and I was hoping that portupgrade could specify what it's
> going to upgrade if you do -a (heck any time you execute it),
> BEFORE you do it, so you can see if there's something that you
> may not want upgraded.
oooooh fancy! please please???
> > Can you point me at where and why script(1) is run?
> > I may be able to assist.
>
> It's run when portupgrade builds ports or downloads packages. I
> am not sure about the 'why' part, but presumably it's for keeping
> logs of the build in case you want to look at it. In any case,
> script is probably the wrong tool for this job, since according
> to the script(1) manpage:
>
> [...]
> The results are meant to emulate a hardcopy terminal, not an
> addressable one.
> [...]
Well for the most part builds are pretty line printer friendly...
It'd probably make a lot more sense to just redirect/tee stdout/err.
I'll look at it, last week it was lisp/scheme, i guess I can learn
ruby this week... :)
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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