Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:28:44 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: request for enhancment: portupgrade Message-ID: <86ofl6cokz.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <20011210202123.P92148@elvis.mu.org> 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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At Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:21:23 -0600,
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 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,
Yes, specifying the -L option to let it keep logs, and regardless of
the flag portupgrade keeps logs to guess reasons of build failures (if
any) from, just as bento does.
> > 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.
For example, try making the postfix port build keeping the log. With
the standard output redirected, its interactive dialog doesn't draw
properly. That's why I thought I had to use pty.
> I'll look at it, last week it was lisp/scheme, i guess I can learn
> ruby this week... :)
The main auther of Ruby is a LISP hacker, so the language is meant to
be friendly to LISP users, not to mention Smalltalk/Eiffel/Perl/Python
users. It's for avid people who've learned many languages but are yet
unsatisfied. :>
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