Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-08-03 Thread Doug Barton
[If you follow up to this message please change freebsd-stable@ to freebsd-po...@. Thanks.] Ben Morrow wrote: > Since my machine has spent the last 48hrs or so rebuilding everything > that depended on jpeg-6b and python25 (it's a pretty old machine), I've > been wondering if an option to say '*do

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-31 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth Doug Barton : > > How about this? When the user has -[rf] but not -R, and there are flag > files present, ask if they should be cleared before beginning to do > anything. Otherwise (no -[rf]) ignore them. Sound good? Since my machine has spent the last 48hrs or so rebuilding everything that

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-31 Thread Doug Barton
Cezary Morga wrote: > Alson van der Meulen pisze: >> * Doug Barton [2009-07-29 22:10]: >>> I'm planning to remove the -u option altogether. It actually does very >>> little now, and certainly does not do what most users expect it should >>> do. > > If I may chip in here on a similar note. > I'm c

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-31 Thread Cezary Morga
Miroslav Lachman pisze: If I may chip in here on a similar note. I'm currently looking for a port management tool that might replace good ol' portinstall/portupgrade tools in my toolbox. Portmaster looks promising but I noticed that it doesn't seem to take BATCH=yes in my /etc/make.conf into c

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-31 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Cezary Morga wrote: Alson van der Meulen pisze: * Doug Barton [2009-07-29 22:10]: I'm planning to remove the -u option altogether. It actually does very little now, and certainly does not do what most users expect it should do. If I may chip in here on a similar note. I'm currently lookin

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-30 Thread Cezary Morga
Alson van der Meulen pisze: * Doug Barton [2009-07-29 22:10]: I'm planning to remove the -u option altogether. It actually does very little now, and certainly does not do what most users expect it should do. If I may chip in here on a similar note. I'm currently looking for a port management

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-29 Thread Alson van der Meulen
* Doug Barton [2009-07-29 22:10]: > I'm planning to remove the -u option altogether. It actually does very > little now, and certainly does not do what most users expect it should > do. Fine by me. I've never actually used -u, with -d (or the equivalent portmaster.rc setting) it's usually fine fo

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Barton
alson...@alm.flutnet.org wrote: > * Doug Barton [2009-07-29 20:48]: >> How about this? When the user has -[rf] but not -R, and there are flag >> files present, ask if they should be cleared before beginning to do >> anything. Otherwise (no -[rf]) ignore them. Sound good? > > Sounds like a good so

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-29 Thread alson+ml
* Doug Barton [2009-07-29 20:48]: > How about this? When the user has -[rf] but not -R, and there are flag > files present, ask if they should be cleared before beginning to do > anything. Otherwise (no -[rf]) ignore them. Sound good? Sounds like a good solution for both problems (stale flag file

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Barton
Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 29 July 2009 10:48:33 Doug Barton wrote: >> Alson van der Meulen wrote: >>> * Doug Barton [2009-07-29 18:13]: Mel Flynn wrote: > Gotcha. Is there a reason the flags are removed if the options are not > "-r or -f"? Yes, so we don't have stale flags

Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-29 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 29 July 2009 10:48:33 Doug Barton wrote: > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > * Doug Barton [2009-07-29 18:13]: > >> Mel Flynn wrote: > >>> Gotcha. Is there a reason the flags are removed if the options are not > >>> "-r or -f"? > >> > >> Yes, so we don't have stale flags sitting around

portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

2009-07-29 Thread Doug Barton
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > * Doug Barton [2009-07-29 18:13]: >> Mel Flynn wrote: >>> Gotcha. Is there a reason the flags are removed if the options are not "-r >>> or >>> -f"? >> Yes, so we don't have stale flags sitting around forever to confuse >> future runs. > > I have been bitten by thi