Updating multiple ports with portmaster

[Doug Barton]

On 3/26/2011 8:22 AM, Ron (Lists) wrote:
> I have a questions about the use of portmaster when upgrading multiple
> ports and how to correctly use wildcards.
>
> For example, I have this from pkg_version:
>
> p5-Digest-SHA-5.50 < needs updating (port has 5.61)
> p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.38 < needs updating (port has 1.39)
> p5-IPC-Cmd-0.68 < needs updating (port has 0.70)
> p5-Math-BigInt-1.99 < needs updating (port has 1.993)
> p5-Module-Build-0.3607_1 < needs updating (port has 0.3624)
> p5-Module-CoreList-2.42 < needs updating (port has 2.45)
> p5-Module-Load-Conditional-0.38 < needs updating (port has 0.44)
> p5-Params-Check-0.26_1 < needs updating (port has 0.28)
> p5-Test-Harness-3.22 < needs updating (port has 3.23)
> p5-URI-1.56 < needs updating (port has 1.58)
>
> When I was using portupgrade, I could type...
>
> portupgrade p5-*
>
> ...and it would upgrade only the ports that needed upgrading and
> dependancies. But if I try...
>
> portmaster p5-*
>
> ===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed:
> Re-install p5-Digest-SHA1-2.13
> Re-install p5-IO-Compress-2.033
> Re-install p5-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.033
> Re-install p5-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.033
> Re-install p5-HTML-Tagset-3.20
> Re-install p5-HTML-Parser-3.68
> Upgrade p5-Digest-SHA-5.50 to p5-Digest-SHA-5.61
> Re-install p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1_3
> Re-install p5-Archive-Tar-1.76
> Re-install p5-IO-Zlib-1.10_1
> Re-install p5-IO-String-1.08
> Re-install p5-Package-Constants-0.02
> Re-install p5-Encode-Detect-1.01
> Re-install p5-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.2802_1,1
> Upgrade p5-IPC-Cmd-0.68 to p5-IPC-Cmd-0.70
> Re-install p5-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21
> Upgrade p5-Module-Load-Conditional-0.38 to p5-Module-Load-Conditional-0.44
> Upgrade p5-Module-CoreList-2.42 to p5-Module-CoreList-2.45
> Re-install p5-Module-Load-0.18
> Upgrade p5-Params-Check-0.26_1 to p5-Params-Check-0.28
> Re-install p5-version-0.88
> Upgrade p5-Module-Build-0.3607_1 to p5-Module-Build-0.3624
> Install devel/p5-CPAN-Meta-YAML
> Re-install p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54
> Re-install p5-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.22.03
> Install devel/p5-Module-Metadata
> Install devel/p5-Perl-OSType
> Upgrade p5-Test-Harness-3.22 to p5-Test-Harness-3.23
> Re-install p5-Net-DNS-0.66_1
> Re-install p5-Net-IP-1.25_2
> Re-install p5-IO-Socket-INET6-2.65
> Re-install p5-Socket6-0.23
> Re-install p5-Digest-HMAC-1.02
> Re-install p5-Mail-Tools-2.07
> Re-install p5-TimeDate-1.20,1
> Re-install p5-NetAddr-IP-4.038
> Upgrade p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.38 to p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.39
> Re-install p5-Net-SSLeay-1.36
> Re-install p5-libwww-5.837
> Upgrade p5-URI-1.56 to p5-URI-1.58
> Re-install p5-YAML-Tiny-1.44
> Re-install p5-Time-HiRes-1.9721,1
> Re-install p5-Locale-gettext-1.05_3
> Upgrade p5-Math-BigInt-1.99 to p5-Math-BigInt-1.993
> Re-install p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56
> Re-install p5-MIME-Base64-3.13
> Re-install p5-YAML-0.72
> Re-install p5-Error-0.17016
> Re-install p5-Net-DNS-Resolver-Programmable-0.003
> Re-install p5-Mail-SPF-2.007
>
> ...it wants to upgrade and reinstall every port that I have installed
> that begins with p5-*
>
> Is there a way to get portmaster to behave like portupgrade did and only
> upgrade what needs to be upgraded?

Not directly. You could mimic the behavior using the -i option with 
either 'portmaster -a' or 'portmaster p5-'. And to answer your likely 
followup question, I have no plans to add such an option. :)


hth,

Doug

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