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

alson+ml at alm.flutnet.org alson+ml at alm.flutnet.org
Wed Jul 29 20:00:20 UTC 2009


* Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> [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 files and
unexpected removal). It should default to removing the files with -u. I
think that -R is a very useful feature of portmaster, so I'm happy to
see it getting improved. Thanks!

Alson


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