Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:51:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought on Portmaster -Faf and deleted ports Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310141945160.91768@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20131014233539.56016.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> References: <20131013200236.7874.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310132302220.82895@wonkity.com> <20131014174833.58154.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310141426160.89896@wonkity.com> <20131014233539.56016.qmail@irelay.ssr.com>
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > > On Mon, 14 oct 2013, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Scott Ballantyne wrote: >> >>>> >>>> What errors, exactly? >>> >>> Well, for example: >>> >>> portmaster -Faf >>> it starts to fetch a bunch of files >>> it finds a port which has been deleted, such as >>> linux-base-fc4 >>> and it says, "linux-base-fc4" has been deleted. >>> terminating >>> terminating >>> terminating >>> etc. >> >> That's correct. linux_base-fc4 is long gone (years), replaced by >> linux_base-f10. portmaster sees no way to upgrade that port, so >> evidently it quits. > > I understand why portmaster quits that port. It does seem like a bit > of over-kill to quit updating ALL ports because one is long > gone. Seems like it could do the others. Some of them. It could not update any ports that depend on missing ports, which conflicts with the "-a" meaning "all". >> If you have ports that far out of date, the upgrade process is going to >> be long. Ports where the system does not know the replacement will have >> to be handled manually. > > Actually, the last time I updated my ports was when I installed 9.0, > and I used the portmaster 'nuke all ports' method I was trying to > day. Since then, several dozen ports of been 'deleted' or 'renamed', > not just the linux_base-fc4. Seems in the case of ports which have > been renamed or replaced, this could in fact be simply automated in > most cases. I think it does handle renamed ports. Whether the ones it does not handle are due to missing functionality or because they are difficult or impossible to handle, don't know.
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