RUN_DEPENDS and portmaster

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 19 15:05:02 UTC 2018


On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:14:42 +0200 (CEST)
Marco Beishuizen wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Sep 2018, the wise Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
> > This discussion of portmaster prompts me to ask, what is the status
> > of portupgrade?
> >
> > I used portupgrade at first but subsequently switched to
> > portmaster.  
> 
> I still use portupgrade daily and it works fine. 

I presume that's because you use a restricted set of packages. Without
flavor support portupgrade can't always get the port directory from the
origin.


> Afaik the maintainer
> is adding support for flavors into portupgrade but I don't know the
> status of it:
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2017-December/111445.html

That said "in the next few weeks" last year. 


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