Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:49:45 -0600 From: Eric <eric@mikestammer.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about portmanager(1) ownership Message-ID: <45624D29.4090808@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <4562415A.30106@freebsd.org> References: <4562415A.30106@freebsd.org>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > 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 try portmaster, its way better IMO and actively developed.
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