From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 18:23:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2291065674 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:23:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44D68FC20 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:23:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 24696 invoked by uid 399); 11 Jun 2008 18:23:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 11 Jun 2008 18:23:30 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <48501820.1030206@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:23:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080606) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Angelo Turetta References: <48500C9E.7090802@commit.it> In-Reply-To: <48500C9E.7090802@commit.it> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD - Ports Subject: Re: portmaster: upgrade using local packages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:23:31 -0000 Angelo Turetta wrote: > I'm evaluating portmaster: I cannot find an option to use pre-built > packages for upgrading. At this time there is no such option, and I haven't been able to carve out the time to work on it. I noted in your message that you've already discovered the -g option. For your particular situation it would certainly be conceivable to hack up a quick and dirty script of some sort to force updates on the "client" machines for which you have new packages, but it's certainly not an ideal solution. I am interested in adding this feature, so if someone is interested in sponsoring the work .... :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection