Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:12:18 GMT From: Fred Condo<hostmaster@quinn.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/110282: Portupgrade documentation mischaracterizes the -b option Message-ID: <200703132012.l2DKCI1K053831@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200703132020.l2DKK3qI017797@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 110282 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Portupgrade documentation mischaracterizes the -b option >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 13 20:20:03 GMT 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Fred Condo >Release: 6.1-RELEASE-p13 >Organization: Quinn Interactive, Inc. >Environment: FreeBSD example.com 6.1-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p13 #7: Tue Mar 13 10:36:25 PDT 2007 fred@example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: The manpage for portupgrade states that backup copies kept with the -b/--backup-packages option are stored in a temporary directory. This is not true. They are stored in /usr/ports/packages/All >How-To-Repeat: man portupgrade portupgrade -ba >Fix: Patch attached with submission follows: --- portupgrade.1-orig Fri Nov 17 12:58:40 2006 +++ portupgrade.1 Tue Mar 13 13:10:04 2007 @@ -121,12 +121,7 @@ .Pp .It Fl b .It Fl -backup-packages -Keep backup packages of the old versions. These are kept in a -temporary directory. See -.Ev PKG_TMPDIR -and -.Ev TMPDIR -in the ENVIRONMENT section. +Keep backup packages of the old versions. .Pp .It Fl -batch Run an upgrading process in a batch mode (with BATCH=yes). @@ -873,6 +868,8 @@ Default location of the installed package database. .It Pa /usr/ports Default location of the ports tree and the ports database files. +.It Pa /usr/ports/packages/All +Default location of backup packages saved with -b. .Pp .It Pa $PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf Default location of the pkgtools configuration file. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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