HEADS UP - master/slave ports

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Fri Jun 18 11:21:19 GMT 2004


On 18 Jun 2004 at 9:23, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
> > http://beta.freshports.org/ now has support for displaying 
> > master/slave relationships.  This is the first step in automatically 
> > updating a slave port when a commit is made to a master port.  Until 
> > recently, there was no acceptable method for determing master/slave 
> > relationship.  Consequently, FreshPorts makes no attempt to refresh a 
> > slave port when the master port is updated.
> 
> Well, it shows master/slave state for my ports right. But port versions 
> are not equal. This part of work is not done yet?

I suspect you are looking at http://www.FreshPorts.org/ (production). 
The work described above is at http://beta.FreshPorts.org/.  I just 
look there, searched for ports maintained by you, found 21 such 
ports, checked http://beta.freshports.org/devel/ace+tao/ and found it 
to be a master port for http://beta.freshports.org/devel/ace/

The master/slave work is just in BETA.  It will move to production at 
a later date.

Thank you.
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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