portmaster some_port vs. portmaster 'some_port*'

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Maybe I'm not reading the man page correctly, but I would expect
> portmaster, if invoked with a wild-card, to:
> - first update the dependencies of the ports matched by the 'some_port*' it
> gets on the command line
> - then to update the ports matched by said wild-card in dependency order.
>
> At least #1 above doesn't seem to happen for wild-card invocation, but
> it happens when invoked with one or two ports:
> http://people.tecnik93.com/~itetcu/FreeBSD/errors/portmaster/
>
> Bug? Feature? :-)
>

If that were to work, I'd imagine the '*' wildcard would need to be escaped.

IE: portmaster 'someport\*'

Note: I do not use portmaster, so this is a guess, not a solution.


-- 
Glen Barber