From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 22:00:30 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058B91065677; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 22:00:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jktrigg@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906128FC2E; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 22:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg5 with SMTP id 5so4047864qwg.13 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:00:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=GHtHUFo9WPq50KLbGiqcy/QDof9d6nH0AvNWew5zlKo=; b=n9wRoN2IPE+afL6wF2bEhtTKRb86kBN/BgKiq9r5ma3SMn/TGxJ7nt5VgtXUEZzzGs CxXKwigXfM0bm1T4OkNPSAfchiHvRsa2dq5bnsB/aT3vxqr+cpRwvnsB0WSdzhEpH/F1 b9gI3ddOJuZ8+HBFNbYD2rQzpUbm0DanFB0y0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=jlKKXKV2McrWed69hNuyITIRGEel8HEiTuIiKt81LKeA2RQBgwBao0508558Pbu2cr /KbWJGvAg4GiDKhzko0ZNXLfaThdeIm05iKSNIVxgOVPAudooe0hwQT3oA1M8BRcrdvA PYl9f9PU4DHeGGdtDh0CXfwG7z3g0ODERqueU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.224.136 with SMTP id io8mr5189668qcb.56.1281130393806; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Sender: jktrigg@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.140.197 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:33:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C5C7DFF.8020400@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C5BC280.1070805@FreeBSD.org> <4C5BF352.5050004@dataix.net> <4C5C7DFF.8020400@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:33:13 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: oykFI_IRTMeCd8EhuYjKPjW_EbE Message-ID: From: Jim Trigg To: Doug Barton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:00:30 -0000 On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/06/2010 04:34, jhell wrote: >> Do not prompt for a backup package creation failure > > I need to add an option for this, but it will likely be an "expert" > option that you can set in the rc file. The theory is that package > creation failure should be a rare thing, and since portmaster has no way > to know what packages are really critical to any given system it treats > inability to safely recover from an upgrade failure as a critical error. > However, having the ability to disable this is an oft-requested feature, > I just haven't gotten to it yet. > >> and force creation of whatever you have on the system already? > > Not sure what this means, can you explain it in more detail? One example I have (unfortunately): I accidentally wiped out /usr/local/. Reinstalling all my ports was easy -- first reinstall portmaster and then run "portmaster -af". The problem was that for every single port I had to say "Yes, ignore the fact that the port wasn't already there". So I had to tend the process all the way through. An option to force ignoring the package creation failure would allow that to be an unattended process. Jim