Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:09:58 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Hans Lambermont <hans@lambermont.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster deletes failed ports Message-ID: <44FDAF66.7090701@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060905104831.GF89080@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> References: <44FC4303.4050600@gmail.com> <200609042118.09134.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <44FC9527.6000802@gmail.com> <200609050048.57718.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <20060905104831.GF89080@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org>
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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.
It's easy enough to 'echo BACKUP=yes >> ~/.portmasterrc' (or
/etc/portmaster.rc) and then do the restore yourself if it's a port that you
consider mission critical. If you're going to add that to the rc file, I
suggest you also do 'mkdir -p /usr/ports/packages/All' and that way you'll
always know where your backups are.
hth,
Doug
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