Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports

[Jeremie Le Hen]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:07:26AM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote:
> I'd say it's actually very simple, and that could sometimes be
> convenient. For example, pkgtools.conf offers the HOLD_PKGS array and
> possibility to manually put +IGNOREME in the package directory.
> 
> In this case, it would be sufficient to add something like
> +NEVERDEINSTALL to the directory or NEVER_DEINSTALL array to the
> pkgtools.conf, while portinstall could (optionally) mark with
> +NEVERDEINSTALL file all ports that are manually (= as an argument)
> passed to it.
> 
> Those pakages would behave normally (they would be normally upgraded,
> etc.), they would just always be (silently) included in -x list of
> pkg_deinstall. I don't think it has much to do with the execution speed.
> 
> Of course, if something like that doesn't already exist.

The patch to ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk is straightforward:

% @@ -5849,6 +5849,9 @@ fake-pkg:
%                 ${CAT} /tmp/${PKGNAME}-required-by >> ${PKG_DBDIR}/${PKGNAME}/+REQUIRED_BY; \
%                 ${RM} -f /tmp/${PKGNAME}-required-by; \
%         fi
% +.if !defined(INSTALLS_DEPENDS)
% +               ${TOUCH} ${PKG_DBDIR}/${PKGNAME}/+NEVERDEINSTALL
% +.endif
%  .else
%         @${DO_NADA}
%  .endif

I've had a look at pkgtools, but I don't know Ruby.  I think this
modification is pretty easy for portupgrade's developpers. 

Best regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
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