New /bin/sh based script to manage ports

[Doug Barton]

Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> I haven't play with your script yet, but I only read it so far.

Thanks for taking a look, and for your feedback.

> 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.

This is a reasonable request, and I should point out that the script does 
handle DISTDIR properly now. However, the other two present a chicken and 
egg problem if I choose to use 'make -V' to get the values of these 
variables (where do I cd to?). There is an alternative, which is to use code 
similar to what I wrote for the current version of /etc/rc.d/devfs to parse 
/etc/make.conf manually, but even that is subject to error. For example, I 
separate my base stuff into /etc/make.conf and ports to /etc/make-ports.conf.

If there is a lot of call for this, I could add command line options (that 
could subsequently be read from a portmaster.rc file) although I'm sensitive 
to the issue that users who relocate these directories already have a lot of 
places to set those options. OTOH, I put my ports tree in a different 
directory than /usr/ports, but I learned long ago that the easiest way to 
handle that is to create a symlink to it in /usr. YMMV of course.

I've uploaded a new version that fixes a typo that was reported here, and 
removes references to the name I used for the script during development. 
http://dougbarton.us/portmaster.html if anyone is still interested. Thanks 
to all those who've provided feedback so far.

Doug

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