Question about portmanager(1) ownership

[Eric]

Mark Ovens wrote:
> Can someone explain about the ownership of sysutils/portmanager please?
>
> It is obviously a FreeBSD-specific port (and I recognize the name 
> Michael Schultz as a member of the FreeBSD community) and the project 
> is hosted on SourceForge but the SF project pages seem way out of 
> date. Also, I submitted a patch in ports/98032 - to stop it dumping 
> core if run by a non-root user - which was committed, but as a patch 
> rather than a mod to the core code, which puzzles me since, as I said, 
> it is FreeBSD-specific.
>
> The reason I ask is that I want to do some more enhancements to it but 
> wondering where the project is at.
>
> I've got ~450 ports installed on my main system and I find the output 
> of ``portmanager -s'' a real PITA. It's unsorted (presumably the 
> output order is the order it walks the installed ports and their 
> dependencies?) meaning I have to scroll through 450 lines of output to 
> see if a particular port has been updated, e.g. if I'm waiting for a 
> fix to be committed.
>
> What I want to do is add an option/options to control/limit the 
> output. For example, choose how the output is sorted - by port name, 
> port collection (with name as the secondary sort), or status, plus 
> options to restrict the output to a particular status, mainly not 
> CURRENT, e.g. only list ports that are not CURRENT and sort the output 
> by name. This would make it a lot easier to find if 
> frobulators/widgetmangler has been updated.
>
> ``portmanager -s | grep -v CURRENT'' goes some way to achieving this, 
> but it would be better if there was more control.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
try portmaster, its way better IMO and actively developed.