From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 16 09:50:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9FF16A5A2; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D1C43D48; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:50:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from doc.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=srv.sem.ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1FrAyS-0009Ne-5M; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:50:44 +0400 Received: from bsam by srv.sem.ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FrAyw-000AHp-CQ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:51:14 +0400 To: Doug Barton References: <4491F0AB.7050600@FreeBSD.org> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:51:14 +0400 In-Reply-To: <4491F0AB.7050600@FreeBSD.org> (Doug Barton's message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:43:39 -0700") Message-ID: <61896397@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New version of portmaster available for testing 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, 16 Jun 2006 09:50:46 -0000 Hi Doug, On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:43:39 -0700 you wrote: > New features: > ============= > 1. Add -b option to make a backup package of the installed port > 2. Add -g option to make a package of the new port > 3. Add -o option to replace an installed port with a new port from a > different location (e.g., portmaster -o emulators/linux_base-fc4 linux_base) > The second argument can also be specified as the name of the installed port > (e.g., linux_base-8-8.0_15) > 4. Add -s option to detect no-longer-needed dependencies, and offer the user > a choice to delete them. This is to say a big THANK YOU. I haven't tested the new version of portmaster yet. But I should say that the first tree new features are more than welcome. They are those options why I use (sometime) portupgrade since I've started to use portmaster. WBR -- Boris B. Samorodov, Research Engineer InPharmTech Co, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet Service Provider