Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:41:29 +1000
From:      Dima Panov <fluffy@fluffy.khv.ru>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portmaster-with-package-support release candidate available for testing
Message-ID:  <200912021241.29874.fluffy@fluffy.khv.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4B159C5C.2090407@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4B159C5C.2090407@FreeBSD.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart2343811.EcV7enBnx6
Content-Type: Text/Plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 08:44:44 Doug Barton wrote:
> Howdy!
>=20
> I'm very excited to announce that what I hope to be the final version
> of the new portmaster with package support is now available for
> testing. I've done quite a bit of regression testing myself, but the
> last time I posted about the beta version several people were kind
> enough to give it a go and I got several really good suggestions. It
> would be really great if more users could give this version a try
> before I commit it to the actual port.
>=20
> You can find the information on accessing the svn version at
> http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html
>=20
> A more-or-less complete list of the new features:
>=20
> -P|--packages, -PP|--packages-only
> 	Basically like the portupgrade features to try downloading a package
> first then build it if no package is available, or use only packages.
>=20
> --packages-build
> 	For packages that are ONLY listed as build dependencies for the ports
> being updated in this run, download packages if available.
>=20
> --delete-build-only
> 	For packages/ports that are ONLY listed as build dependencies for the
> ports being updated in this run, delete them when the run is over.
>=20
> --packages-if-newer
> 	This is a modifier to -P|-PP. Use the package if newer than what's
> installed (or the same as what's installed with -f) even if it's not
> the most recent version according to the ports tree.
>=20
> --always-fetch
> 	If we are using packages download a new one even if there is an
> up-to-date version already on the local file system.
>=20

Doug, haw about missed feature (portupgrade had this earlier)?=20
If -r (recursive) flag present, after upgrade package repack all depended o=
n him.

This feature very useful when packqage repository used to deploy packages o=
n another=20
machines


=2D-=20
Dima "Red Fox" Panov @ Home | C73E 2B72 1FFD 61BD E206 1234 A626 76ED 93E3 =
B018
Khabarovsk, Russia          | 2D30 2CCB 9984 130C 6F87 BAFC FB8B A09D D539 =
8F29
KDE@FreeBSD Team | FreeBSD committer since 10.08.2009 | FreeBSD since Sept =
1995
Twitter.com:fluffy_khv | Skype:dima.panov | Jabber.org:fluffy.khv | ICQ:174=
5024

--nextPart2343811.EcV7enBnx6
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc 
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD)

iEYEABECAAYFAksV09kACgkQpiZ27ZPjsBi0LwCfWfy+Dcu2HOOXVzs4O+UlMhup
5Z4AoKsGThxpjfxSJJOZeTC8AnAf8jvs
=FQZH
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--nextPart2343811.EcV7enBnx6--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200912021241.29874.fluffy>