cvs commit: ports MOVED UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.autotools.mk ports/accessibility/atk Makefile ports/accessibility/gnome-mag Makefile ports/accessibility/kdeaccessibility Makefile ports/archivers/kbackup Makefile ports/archivers/kio_p7zip ...

[N.J. Mann]

In message <4A77364C.2060702 at FreeBSD.org>,
	Doug Barton (dougb at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> N.J. Mann wrote:
> > In message <200908021936.n72JaYSD075693 at repoman.freebsd.org>,
> > 	Jeremy Messenger (mezz at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> >> mezz        2009-08-02 19:36:34 UTC
> >>
> >>   FreeBSD ports repository
> >>
> >>   Modified files:
> >>     .                    MOVED UPDATING 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Is the syntax for portmaster in UPDATING correct? 
> 
> It was not, but I just fixed it:
> 
> portmaster -o devel/libtool22 devel/libtool15
> portmaster -o devel/libltdl22 devel/libltdl15
> 
> At some future date I will update the command line parser to handle
> globs for the second argument to -o.
> 
> > When I tried
> > 
> >   portmaster -o devel/libtool22 libtool-1.5.26
> > 
> > it worked.
> 
> Yes, specifying the full name of the port directory in /var/db/pkg
> will work, but it's hard to write an UPDATING entry that easily
> summarizes that problem since users may be updating from versions
> older than the most recent one.

Thanks for that Doug.  And, thanks again for portmaster!

And, while I am here... thanks to Jeremy and everyone else involved in
keeping the ports system going.  Super job guys!


Cheers,
       Nick.
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