Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:25:10 -0400 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager endlessly looping in x11 Message-ID: <4C882966.5070908@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20100908181535.0bb7d329@seibercom.net> References: <4C75C308.5060506@telenix.org> <4C75F8F9.3060704@DataIX.net> <4C88030C.1030505@telenix.org> <20100908181535.0bb7d329@seibercom.net>
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On 09/08/10 18:15, Jerry wrote: > Portmanager did have a nasty bug that involved looping. It was fixed > ages ago though. Are you running the latest version; i.e., "0.4.1_9" on > your system? Run "portmanager -v" to confirm. > > Without the '-p' option, portmanager only looks 1 level deep. with the > '-p' option, it will search the entire dependency chain. I always use > the '-p' option and never experience any problems described by you. > Not sure if the -p does that or not, but I *did* read (more than just a few times) about the -p (meaning "pristine") option, and from the reading, it doesn't tell me that it might affect looping, and I didn't see anything about it in the man page. I didn't just try it and immediately mail, I tried to DTRT. Doesn't matter too much to me now, because I really love the fact that I did 4 *very* large (meaning lengthy dependency lists) ports, with 100% 1st-time accuracy, which means I will stay with portmaster for sure now. Also, because those ports are now all installed, and I don't want to take a few days to rebuild everything all over again. It looks like, in the default case, portmanager detects more problems than it deals with, which is not a desirable default action. It's probably a needed default action for some use case ... do you happen to know what that is?
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