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From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (Hans Lambermont)
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Subject: Re: portmaster deletes failed ports
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Freddie Cash wrote:

> On Wed, September 6, 2006 1:19 am, Bill Blue wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:09:58 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> Hans Lambermont wrote:
>>>> RW wrote:
>>>>> I don't use portmaster myself, but I just took a look at the
>>>>> script and, unless I'm missing something, it does appear that this
>>>>> feature is missing from portmaster. There an option to create
>>>>> backup packages, but nothing to automatically restore the previous
>>>>> version if the install fails.
>>>> I can confirm this. The auto-restore-backup would be a nice
>>>> feature. Doug ?  ;-)
>>> I'm extremely reluctant to start trying to think for the user. Down
>>> that path lies madness.
> 
> Good.  Programs should do what the user tells them to, not try and
> guess what the user might want and try to be overly helpful in doing
> strange and mysterious things.

We agree completely here.

> If the install fails, then error out with a nice message.  Let the
> user decide what to do after that.

Exactly. The interesting question now is 'what is a failed upgrade' ? To
me that is the system as it was in the state before the upgrade attempt.
To you it is the system left as-is exactly where the upgrade process
failed.

Both approaches are useful, but the first one doesn't exist yet in
portmaster.

regards,
   Hans Lambermont