Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:21:49 -0500 From: B Briggs <rcbdyndns@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster deletes failed ports Message-ID: <44FDCE4D.3010705@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <edkbj4$1lcc$1@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw> References: <edkbj4$1lcc$1@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
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Doug Barton wrote: > Hans Lambermont wrote: >> RW wrote: >> >> ... >>> I don't use portmaster myself, but I just took a look at the script and, >>> unless I'm missing something, it does appear that this feature is missing >>> from portmaster. There an option to create backup packages, but nothing to >>> automatically restore the previous version if the install fails. >> I can confirm this. The auto-restore-backup would be a nice feature. >> Doug ? ;-) > > I'm extremely reluctant to start trying to think for the user. Down that > path lies madness. > > It's easy enough to 'echo BACKUP=yes >> ~/.portmasterrc' (or > /etc/portmaster.rc) and then do the restore yourself if it's a port that you > consider mission critical. If you're going to add that to the rc file, I > suggest you also do 'mkdir -p /usr/ports/packages/All' and that way you'll > always know where your backups are. > > hth, > > Doug > Doug, I'm sorry, I love your script, but I my thoughts are that you need to rethink this. The problem is that if unattended, you will not know if the port was deleted especially if you have a lot of output. This can lead to a lot of other problems. I've looked at the script, and it seems that you could break it down into (something like) these steps: make (check return code, if it doesn't build, report error) and continue script as normal. pkg_create -b original_package_name pathto/whereveryou_wanttobackit_up) make deinstall make install clean (if it returns OK, delete the backed up package, otherwise, use pkg_add from the backup) I've probably missed some intermediate steps, but I like portmaster much better than portupgrade, and I hope you take the time to consider this. -- B Briggs
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