Working on FLAVOR support in portmaster

[Matthieu Volat]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 08:35:55 +0100
Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Am 05.12.17 um 00:43 schrieb Tatsuki Makino:
> > By the way, where is the clever way to update to flavor?
> > I am using portmaster.  
> 
> I'm working on FLAVOR support in portmaster. My version did already build
> all updated ports, the FLAVOR parameter is passed to build sub-processes,
> but there is still some confusion between multiple flavored versions of the
> same port (installing the py27 version wants to deinstall the py36 version
> and vice versa), which I still have to fix.
> 
> I'm not sure that I have time to complete the fix today, but it is not too
> hard. Ports need to complement the port origin with the FLAVOR, where
> appropriate (e.g. when a flavored destination is found in MOVED). Already
> installed packages are annotated with "flavor" and that must be passed to
> the build command, when that port is updated. Most other logic in portmaster
> remains unaffected.
> 
> 
> My work version has all non PKG_NG support stripped, but that is mainly to
> not waste effort fixing irrelevant sub-routines.
> 
> Is it acceptable, to have portmaster stop supporting the old package system?
> AFAIK, there is no way that a modern ports tree with flavor support works
> with a non-PKG_NG infrastructure?
> 
> Regards, STefan

Ho, and here I was, almost ready to request some comments after playing a bit:

  https://github.com/freebsd/portmaster/compare/master...mazhe:wip-flavors?expand=1

Regarding old pkg support, wasn't it removed from the repo master branch?
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