Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:14:39 -0300
From:      Eduardo <sathler90@gmail.com>
To:        Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann@googlemail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster
Message-ID:  <AANLkTik6ZnFKGzTMFCcW9-F5kuVwP9k1=V9ebm5SR3cA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinBJo0M-5fL=ATeY0KXnjA3O-7=TOLMF0X6dzdC@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <AANLkTinBJo0M-5fL=ATeY0KXnjA3O-7=TOLMF0X6dzdC@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Just curious, is it really true that portupgrade is "abandonware" ?

I think I have seen some updates to it on the ports tree in the last
six months ...

thanks,
-Ed.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Sandra Kachelmann
<s.kachelmann@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've been using ports-mgmt/portupgrade pretty much ever since it
> started to exist. Unfortunately portupgrade seems to be pretty much
> "abandonware" so I've been told to move on to portmaster. Despite the
> very long manpage I can't seem to be able to achieve the following
> thing with portmaster:
>
> $ portupgrade --batch -a
>
> If I issue this command I know exactly that I can go out, have a
> drink, cook some dinner and unlock my workstation the next day and
> find that everything completed unless a port failed to build. With
> portmaster I get asked a s*t load of interactive questions, whether I
> want to delete some package, whether it's really okay to pull in all
> the dependencies and so on.
>
> Can someone spoonfeed me the command I need to issue with portmaster
> in order to achieve the same thing as with
>
> $ portupgrade --batch -a
>
> Is that even possible?
>
> $ portupgrade --batch -a
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Sandra
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
>



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AANLkTik6ZnFKGzTMFCcW9-F5kuVwP9k1=V9ebm5SR3cA>