Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:30:08 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Portmaster users: Beta testers wanted Message-ID: <4D0433B0.8070204@FreeBSD.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Howdy, For those of you who are portmaster users I'm making another of my periodic requests for beta testers. I'm making a lot of changes to portmaster after the 3.5 version recently released to ports, and while as always I'm doing my best to regression test the changes y'all are very creative when it comes to combinations of options that never occurred to me. :) The main 2 new features are: 1. Introduce get_answer() to handle processing of y/n questions that we want to be able to override on the command line with either -y or -n Utilize this new function to provide -y|n support for the following: - -e, -s, --clean-distfiles, --clean-packages, --check-port-dbdir, and - --check-depends. This also allows me to deprecate the horribly hacky - --clean-distfiles-all and --clean-packages-all in favor of -y. 2. Support for the -e, -s, -l, -L, --list-origins, and --check-depends features to work without a ports tree. While these changes may seem simple (and in some ways they are) they required a non-trivial amount of code to be relocated, which is always fun. There may be more to come, but I'd really like to get these features well tested so that I can release them in the ports version before the upcoming FreeBSD 7 and 8 -RELEASEs. In the past my requests for beta testers have been met with somewhat limited results, which (combined with my own mistakes) has led to some version churn. I'd like to avoid that if we can. So, if you're inclined to help, you can get the svn version by using the following instructions: The subversion repository for the work in progress: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/user/dougb/portmaster/ If you have subversion installed locally you can also do: svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/dougb/portmaster I haven't updated the completion files or man page for the new stuff yet, but will do that soon. The --help in portmaster itself is up to date however, so if you're curious about how the new features fit in that's the place to look. Thanks! 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/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNBDOwAAoJEFzGhvEaGryE9CkH/2EAcyhNhB+zGjkJIul7pOEQ C7xJlA6DTLgBGzkg5hATkELMBFA8dE8oLgsiNlbDrrwwCBQkBHgw7wOKrkYVPC+k P7G0n5LFpoV8w6m92MDtlQ/4HV86Zuw26f96z8tuw9Pvt4B8HpFILNqs15viuT61 9buWM78Hqb2JM3lby+jLubPM9P5j/GAEEVmVrbOdZ8KEYzI1HGuDBcNdBtPRBzdX M1EJeO0tAlOKBKQm+zWRNbDxxvZn0RlT+mLdCdb7qh/MEnDiEpy1C4bg4bf4FVBj N3eXJ+NXK3sd7TrFh0owrxbRVIbSTVvt4j+LtGmKUBDpHRF3LIr/9hF/kYOD0OU= =Q9SM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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