From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 01:55:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A955A1065673 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 01:55:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391498FC0A for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 01:55:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 26500 invoked by uid 399); 1 Jan 2011 01:55:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 1 Jan 2011 01:55:58 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4D1E89AD.10407@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:55:57 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Dupre References: <20101231091044.GA98464@lordsith.net> <4D1DB5AF.7060100@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4D1DB5AF.7060100@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: marco , freebsd-ports Subject: Re: ports-mgmt/portconf , ports-mgmt/portmaster and make args 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: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:55:59 -0000 On 12/31/2010 02:51, Alex Dupre wrote: > Package support in portmaster is a bit limited ATM, for example it > installs build dendencies even if it find an already compiled > package. I think I would take issue with "limited." :) Yes, the behavior you're describing is sub-optimal, and I'm looking at improving it, hopefully for the next version. However the behavior is rooted in the fact that without the -PP|--packages-only option building the port is a fallback when no package is found, which in my case is almost all the time. That doesn't prevent it from working well for installing the packages you actually need, even if it is installing more than you actually need. That said, I currently have support for improving the use of portmaster in packages-only mode, so you can look for this to improve as time goes along. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/