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Subject: Re: ports-mgmt/portmaster SUGGEST
From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, awarecons wrote:
>
>> Firstly, thank you for such nice and handy tool.
>>
>> Secondly, would suggest you few handy options of portmaster:
>>
>> - if port fails give it a second try with question 'Retry?'. A user
>> may change some influencing options, for e.g. compiler from gcc 4.2 to
>> 4.6 or clang, before proceeding new try;
>>
>> - if port fails give the whole process second try suggesting restart
>> from the ascend port 'Retry from the ascend port and reconfigure it?',
>> so the user has opportunity to disable failing sibling.
>>
>> Such options are quite handy for large bunches like x11/gnome2|kde4,
>> when one has 300-500 ports to build and wouldn't oblige to restart the
>> whole process each time within failure appears.
>
>
> When portmaster fails out, it shows a list of the remaining ports to build.
> Dependencies that have already been installed will not be rebuilt if you use
> that list.

And don't forget the very handy '-R' option. Only works with -r or -f,
bu tit will greatly simplify these operations when a build errors out.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com