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Date:      Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:11:23 +0100
From:      Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Frederique Rijsdijk <frederique@isafeelin.org>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portmaster -x not working?
Message-ID:  <4A7DCDDB.3010205@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A7DC956.5010402@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote:
> Lawrence Stewart wrote:
> 
>> Today, I again had need of the ability to exclude multiple ports from an
>> update run. It turns out your tip doesn't work with portmaster, though I
>> suspect it would with portupgrade.
> 
> For now, if you need to exclude more than one port you can check the
> man page about +IGNOREME files.
> 

Ok cool. I would definitely like to be able to specify things 
dynamically on a per-run basis as well though without adding +IGNOREME 
files. I often want to special case the exclusion of ports one time only.

>> Doug, what do you think of the attached patch?
> 
> I think it's interesting, but not quite how I would do it. I have
> plans to rewrite the command line parser in order to accommodate this,
> and make things easier to work with generally, so stay tuned.

No problemo, will stay tuned.

Cheers,
Lawrence



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