i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster
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From: Dominic Fandrey on 12 Aug 2010 13:33 On 07/08/2010 02:46, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Doug Barton <dougb(a)freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 08/06/2010 15:03, Adam Vande More wrote: >> >> for pkg in /var/db/pkg/* ; do >> pkg_create -b $pkg >> done >> > You guys are loosing opportunities to boast with your shell one liners # pkg_info -Ea | xargs -n1 pkg_create -b Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: Anonymous on 12 Aug 2010 14:11 Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze(a)bsdforen.de> writes: > On 07/08/2010 02:46, Adam Vande More wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Doug Barton <dougb(a)freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> On 08/06/2010 15:03, Adam Vande More wrote: >>> >>> for pkg in /var/db/pkg/* ; do >>> pkg_create -b $pkg >>> done >>> >> > > You guys are loosing opportunities to boast with your shell one liners > > # pkg_info -Ea | xargs -n1 pkg_create -b Why do you need xargs(1) when pkg_create(1) supports regexps as well as simple globs? $ pkg_create -b \* # all packages $ pkg_create -xb firefox # only firefox _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: Eduardo on 13 Aug 2010 11:14 Just curious, is it really true that portupgrade is "abandonware" ? I think I have seen some updates to it on the ports tree in the last six months ... thanks, -Ed. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > I've been using ports-mgmt/portupgrade pretty much ever since it > started to exist. Unfortunately portupgrade seems to be pretty much > "abandonware" so I've been told to move on to portmaster. Despite the > very long manpage I can't seem to be able to achieve the following > thing with portmaster: > > $ portupgrade --batch -a > > If I issue this command I know exactly that I can go out, have a > drink, cook some dinner and unlock my workstation the next day and > find that everything completed unless a port failed to build. With > portmaster I get asked a s*t load of interactive questions, whether I > want to delete some package, whether it's really okay to pull in all > the dependencies and so on. > > Can someone spoonfeed me the command I need to issue with portmaster > in order to achieve the same thing as with > > $ portupgrade --batch -a > > Is that even possible? > > $ portupgrade --batch -a > > Thanks in advance! > > Sandra > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"
From: Torfinn Ingolfsen on 13 Aug 2010 14:18
Hi, On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > However, as a user of portmaster, I would like to say that just > because portupgrade (or portmanager, or port-tool-of-the-month) has a > specific feature, doesn't mean it absolutely needs to be added to > portmaster. > Agreed. > Personally, I can say that in my many years of using port management > tools (on firewalls, routers, servers, and desktops), I have never had > a need for a feature like this. > IMHO, it goes both ways: just because you haven't needed a feature in portupgrade (or other tool) doesn't mean that such a feature isn't useful for other users. HAND -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org" |