From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 1 15:14:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75B5106564A for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:14:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mrkvrg@acm.org) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6727A8FC22 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:14:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mrkvrg@acm.org) Received: (qmail 89705 invoked by uid 0); 1 Jul 2009 15:14:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gecko3.bs.net) (216.220.115.212) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Jul 2009 15:14:11 -0000 From: mfv To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:14:10 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/7.2-STABLE; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: <4A4AFC07.6070508@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A4AFC07.6070508@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907011114.10918.mrkvrg@acm.org> Cc: Roland Smith , Manish Jain Subject: Re: Questions on portmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:14:14 -0000 On Wednesday, 1 July 2009 02:02:47 Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I am using portmaster on FreeBSD-7.2 to keep my ports up to date. When > there are multiple ports to be updated, portmaster will fork off child > processes. Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? I ask > this because the parent process attached to the console reports very low > data transfer rates (in the range of 0.7 to 4.0 kBps, while normally I > get 30 to 35 kBps). > > Further, how can portmaster be tuned to automatically ignore ports which > are actually marked as IGNORE in the port directory ? This is not > covered in the manpage. > > While doing portmaster -a, I have only managed to stop portmaster from > building exactly one port specified with the -x option. Can I get to > stop multiple ports from being built ? Is there regular expression > support for the -x option ? > > Thanks for any help. Hello Manish, Regarding your last point about excluding particular ports I always thought that it would be convenient to have a section in /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc and/or $HOME/.portmasterrc to identify these particular ports. I prefer to have all this information in one place rather than scattered over many subdirectories. I had the same problem with trying to have multiple instances of "-x" but gave up and used +IGNOREME instead. Some time ago I succeeded with a regular expression but it became overly complicated if more than two ports were to be excluded. Nevertheless, I use portmaster daily and am very pleased with it. With thanks to Doug Barton. Cheers... Marek