Ports management tools in the base (Was: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas ideas.xml)

[Doug Barton]

[ Catching up on some really old mail, sorry if this is old news too. ]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Rene Ladan wrote:

> Doug Barton schreef:
> [...]
>> I'm pretty close to the end of the list of features that I
>> was ever interested in implementing, and I've added almost every feature
>> that users have asked for (with the notable exception of installing
>> packages)
>
> [...]
>
> I'm thinking of one more option that would be nice: the possibility to
> resume `portmaster -r PORT` builds (like the gettext one) without having
> to rebuild or manually skip all already rebuilt ports (or
> semi-automatically pollute /var/db/pkg with +IGNOREME files using some
> primitive shell scripts I hacked together at 1 AM)

I added this option in version 1.17, in May of this year. It's -R instead 
of -r, but with the same semantics.

>> As for the requirements in the ideas page ...
>>
> [...]
>>
>>     * storing old copies of shared libraries after shmajor number change
>> in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

I added this in version 1.17 too.


Doug

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