New /bin/sh based script to manage ports

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Doug Barton wrote:
> Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> 
>> I was referring to questions like, 'update port X? [n]'
> 
> You should only get that message once, if you use a glob pattern with -r,
> such as 'portmaster -r gnutls'.

Perhaps you're right, I'm not sure I witnessed it more than once. 
However, is it supposed to be displayed when -f is requested?

>> and 'delete foo.tgz? [n]'.
> 
> That shouldn't happen if you use the -d or -D flags. If it is happening,
> it's a bug, and I'd appreciate you letting me know how you got there.

That's what happenned in my attempt to 'portmaster -rdf expat'.

>> I figured, since I asked for a '-rd' update, this was
>> redundant. It is not very annoying, unless you have a few hundred ports
>> to update. Although, given your advice above, I will be doing it less
>> often. I should also confess that I'm contemplating a completely
>> non-interactive invocation of portmaster from sysutils/bpm or similar,
>> where such prompts would be prohibitive.
> 
> Well, that'd be fine, let me know when you've thought that out more, and
> I'll be glad to work with you on it.

Sure.


Thanks,

Panagiotis