From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 22:27:20 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 1660B106566C for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 22:27:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5AE8FC1A for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 22:27:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 847 invoked by uid 399); 6 Aug 2010 22:27:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 6 Aug 2010 22:27:18 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C5C8C45.2050600@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:27:17 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100804 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sandra Kachelmann References: <4C5BC280.1070805@FreeBSD.org> <4C5C78AC.7030307@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4C5C78AC.7030307@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Martin Schweizer , 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 22:27:20 -0000 On 08/06/2010 14:03, Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/06/2010 05:44, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: > >> Thank you for your answer (and everyone else who replied). This is >> exactly the reason why I keep going back to portupgrade. Default >> OPTIONS almost always work for me In my haste to point out the exciting new update to -G I neglected to point out how OPTIONS work generally, and more specifically with portmaster. If you run the current production version of portmaster without -G then you will be prompted with all of the OPTIONS screens for all of the ports that need install/updating, then portmaster will start building stuff and leave you alone till it's done. On successive builds for the same port you will not be presented with that OPTIONS dialog again unless the questions have changed (OPTIONS lines added or deleted). IOW, the ports system "remembers" your choices so that you don't need to re-answer all the same questions again. In portmaster this behavior can be influenced with a command line option to force reconsideration of all OPTIONS. Also, if you're satisfied with the defaults you should probably consider the option to try installing packages first, and only build the port if the package is not up to date. hth, Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso