From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 00:35:04 2010 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 390AB1065675 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:35:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA3A8FC13 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:35:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20223 invoked by uid 399); 11 Sep 2010 00:35:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.142?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 11 Sep 2010 00:35:01 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C8ACEB8.9060106@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:35:04 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jhell References: <4C8AA484.5050105@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <4C8AA484.5050105@DataIX.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: portmaster with no run arguments. 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: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:35:04 -0000 On 9/10/2010 2:35 PM, jhell wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > Just thought I would write you about an unexpected output from > portmaster to get your opinion. I just ran 'portmaster' alone without > any arguments to get the list of "--help". Surprising enough to me it > searched for a null port and output the following. > > ===>>> No valid installed port, or port directory given > ===>>> Try portmaster --help > > Would it be wise if portmaster was run with no arguments that it just > output the '--help' by default ?. That's what it used to do, but the list is way too long now to be meaningful. The current output tells the user why it errored out, and gives the recommendation on where to look for more information, which I think is quite reasonable. Thanks for your interest, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/