Updating multiple ports with portmaster

[Matthias Andree]

Am 26.03.2011 17:58, schrieb b. f.:
>> 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?
>>
>
> This is documented in the portmaster(1) manpage.  You can use -a to
> update all ports that need to be updated.  To update a subset of
> those, you could  (1) use -i with -a or a glob (by the way, the *
> isn't needed with portmaster -- see the portmaster(1) manpage), and
> respond in the negative to prompts to update or re-install those you
> wish to exclude; (2) use -x with -a or a glob, to exclude certain
> ports; or (3) feed portmaster a list of globs that match only those
> ports that you want to be updated.  In your case, for (3), if you only
> wanted to update those p5-* ports that need to be updated, but not
> other ports that need to be updated, you could use something like:
>
> pkg_version -qos p5- -l '<' | xargs portmaster
>
> Of course, since some new versions of p5-* ports may depend upon new
> versions of other, non p5-* ports, updating only the p5-* ports isn't
> guaranteed to work.

portmaster takes care of that, except if there are downstream 
dependencies that stop working with updated ports on your list -- but 
that's rather rarely observed and usually documented in 
/usr/ports/UPDATING -- but even then, portmaster -a -i would likely help.

-- 
Matthias Andree