New /bin/sh based script to manage ports

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:21:19 -0600, Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I've been working on a new script to manage ports. I've put up a web  
> page about it at http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/portmaster.html
>
>  From that page:
>
> Does the world really need one more port management tool? Well I'm not  
> sure about the world, but I do know that none of the existing options  
> worked for me, for a variety of reasons. The two biggest being that I do  
> not want to have to install yet another language, and I do not want the  
> overhead of a database to manage the information about what ports I have  
> installed, etc.
>
> The goals I started with for this project were to use /bin/sh so that  
> nothing else would have to be installed for it to work, and to make use  
> of the existing data in /var/db/pkg. I now have something that meets  
> those goals, and does everything I want it to do, so I'm interested in  
> sharing it with the community.
>
> More information, and a link to download the script are on the page.
>
> Comments welcome,

I haven't play with your script yet, but I only read it so far. I think  
you should get your script to be able to read in the make.conf (by  
include) for PKG_DBDIR, PORTSDIR, DISTDIR and etc in case if someone tweak  
it. I think it's more friendly with ports that way.

Something like this:
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PORTSDIR=${PORTSDIR:="/usr/ports"}
PKG_DBDIR=${PKG_DBDIR:="/var/db/pkg"}

[...]

. /etc/make.conf

# Read a global rc file first
if [ -r /etc/portup.rc ]; then
	. /etc/portup.rc
fi

[...]
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BTW: Nice job!

Cheers,
Mezz

> Doug


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