Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:48:55 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Subject: Re: Efficiency & correctness for port version upgrades Message-ID: <20100802114855.1b786820@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <4C54B162.4000509@FreeBSD.org> References: <20100731120027.GN12818@albert.catwhisker.org> <4C54B162.4000509@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:27:30 -0700 Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On 07/31/10 05:00, David Wolfskill wrote: > > I have been using portmaster for updating the installed ports on > > may machines -- thanks, Doug! > > My pleasure. :) > > > I'm in the habit of updating on a daily basis -- directly after the > > "smoke-test" boot of a newly-rebuilt stable/7 (before I go on to > > build stable/8). > > > > This morning, I noticed the (20100730) entry in UPDATING on > > www/neon28 -> www/neon29, so I made sure to complete that before > > doing the "svn update" on my stable/8 working directory. [This is > > one place where having the revision control system in ports, vs. > > base, is a bit of a nuisance -- but that's off-topic for this note.] > > > > The instructions given for portmaster were: > > > > Portmaster users: > > portmaster -o www/neon29 www/neon28 > > portmaster -r neon29- > > > > which is fine, in that it works. > > > > However: It also causes www/neon29 to be built twice; I cannot > > help but question the extent to which this is actually desired. > > One disadvantage (or is it an advantage? I'm never sure) of the fact > that portmaster does not maintain state between runs is behavior like > you're seeing here. To answer your question, assuming that everything > went well with the -o command, there is no reason that portmaster > would have to build the port again. The -r option needs an up to date > +REQUIRED_BY, which is a side effect of (re)building it; but the above > could just as easily be written: > > portmaster -o www/neon29 www/neon28 > portmaster --check-depends > portmaster `cat /var/db/pkg/neon29-0.29.3_2/+REQUIRED_BY` > > I often get the request for this feature (a -r that doesn't rebuild > the port) but have never found the time to work on it. I'll try to get > around to it soonish. Can't this be handled by using -x ? I'm totally confused about how -x should be used, I don't think I managed to make it do what I thought it would do more that once or twice. :) -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> itetcu@FreeBSD.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxWhn4ACgkQJ7GIuiH/oeWZCACeLtC+i/9DiOrw4cdopHeznNYq RL8AoIKsT+qCAGKafz+UJEeONfHV4H54 =bcDD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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