Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:59:22 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Question about portmanager(1) ownership Message-ID: <4562415A.30106@freebsd.org>
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Can someone explain about the ownership of sysutils/portmanager please? It is obviously a FreeBSD-specific port (and I recognize the name Michael Schultz as a member of the FreeBSD community) and the project is hosted on SourceForge but the SF project pages seem way out of date. Also, I submitted a patch in ports/98032 - to stop it dumping core if run by a non-root user - which was committed, but as a patch rather than a mod to the core code, which puzzles me since, as I said, it is FreeBSD-specific. The reason I ask is that I want to do some more enhancements to it but wondering where the project is at. I've got ~450 ports installed on my main system and I find the output of ``portmanager -s'' a real PITA. It's unsorted (presumably the output order is the order it walks the installed ports and their dependencies?) meaning I have to scroll through 450 lines of output to see if a particular port has been updated, e.g. if I'm waiting for a fix to be committed. What I want to do is add an option/options to control/limit the output. For example, choose how the output is sorted - by port name, port collection (with name as the secondary sort), or status, plus options to restrict the output to a particular status, mainly not CURRENT, e.g. only list ports that are not CURRENT and sort the output by name. This would make it a lot easier to find if frobulators/widgetmangler has been updated. ``portmanager -s | grep -v CURRENT'' goes some way to achieving this, but it would be better if there was more control. Thanks. Regards, Mark
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