On Wednesday 02 December 2009 08:44:44 Doug Barton wrote: > Howdy! > > I'm very excited to announce that what I hope to be the final version > of the new portmaster with package support is now available for > testing. I've done quite a bit of regression testing myself, but the > last time I posted about the beta version several people were kind > enough to give it a go and I got several really good suggestions. It > would be really great if more users could give this version a try > before I commit it to the actual port. > > You can find the information on accessing the svn version at > http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html > > A more-or-less complete list of the new features: > > -P|--packages, -PP|--packages-only > Basically like the portupgrade features to try downloading a package > first then build it if no package is available, or use only packages. > > --packages-build > For packages that are ONLY listed as build dependencies for the ports > being updated in this run, download packages if available. > > --delete-build-only > For packages/ports that are ONLY listed as build dependencies for the > ports being updated in this run, delete them when the run is over. > > --packages-if-newer > This is a modifier to -P|-PP. Use the package if newer than what's > installed (or the same as what's installed with -f) even if it's not > the most recent version according to the ports tree. > > --always-fetch > If we are using packages download a new one even if there is an > up-to-date version already on the local file system. >
Doug, haw about missed feature (portupgrade had this earlier)? If -r (recursive) flag present, after upgrade package repack all depended on him. This feature very useful when packqage repository used to deploy packages on another machines -- Dima "Red Fox" Panov @ Home | C73E 2B72 1FFD 61BD E206 1234 A626 76ED 93E3 B018 Khabarovsk, Russia | 2D30 2CCB 9984 130C 6F87 BAFC FB8B A09D D539 8F29 k...@freebsd Team | FreeBSD committer since 10.08.2009 | FreeBSD since Sept 1995 Twitter.com:fluffy_khv | Skype:dima.panov | Jabber.org:fluffy.khv | ICQ:1745024
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