New /bin/sh based script to manage ports

[Doug Barton]

Panagiotis Astithas wrote:

> I was referring to questions like, 'update port X? [n]'

You should only get that message once, if you use a glob pattern with -r,
such as 'portmaster -r gnutls'.

> and 'delete foo.tgz? [n]'.

That shouldn't happen if you use the -d or -D flags. If it is happening,
it's a bug, and I'd appreciate you letting me know how you got there.

> I figured, since I asked for a '-rd' update, this was
> redundant. It is not very annoying, unless you have a few hundred ports
> to update. Although, given your advice above, I will be doing it less
> often. I should also confess that I'm contemplating a completely
> non-interactive invocation of portmaster from sysutils/bpm or similar,
> where such prompts would be prohibitive.

Well, that'd be fine, let me know when you've thought that out more, and
I'll be glad to work with you on it.

Doug

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