portmaster-with-package-support release candidate available for
testing
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 1 22:44:45 UTC 2009
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Howdy!
I'm very excited to announce that what I hope to be the final version
of the new portmaster with package support is now available for
testing. I've done quite a bit of regression testing myself, but the
last time I posted about the beta version several people were kind
enough to give it a go and I got several really good suggestions. It
would be really great if more users could give this version a try
before I commit it to the actual port.
You can find the information on accessing the svn version at
http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html
A more-or-less complete list of the new features:
- -P|--packages, -PP|--packages-only
Basically like the portupgrade features to try downloading a package
first then build it if no package is available, or use only packages.
- --packages-build
For packages that are ONLY listed as build dependencies for the ports
being updated in this run, download packages if available.
- --delete-build-only
For packages/ports that are ONLY listed as build dependencies for the
ports being updated in this run, delete them when the run is over.
- --packages-if-newer
This is a modifier to -P|-PP. Use the package if newer than what's
installed (or the same as what's installed with -f) even if it's not
the most recent version according to the ports tree.
- --always-fetch
If we are using packages download a new one even if there is an
up-to-date version already on the local file system.
Enjoy,
Doug
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