[HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future

[Miroslav Lachman]

Doug Barton wrote:

> Andrew Reilly wrote:

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>>but I
>>don't see a ready equivalent to this with portmaster, hence my
>>dumb script.  In particular, I don't think that portmaster can
>>combine the -r and -x flags (depend and exclude),
> 
> 
> Ummm, why not? It's a little hard to represent in the man page because
> there are so many flags, but -x is included in the "common flags" list
> at the top, and the man page does indicate that -r will take the
> common flags. You'd have to write it:
> 
> portmaster -x firefox -r firefox-2.34
> (substitute the actual value for the installed firefox port)
> 
> but it should work.

I tried -r and -x few days ago in our last bug hunt in portmaster 2.9, 
and it did not work. I don't remember what exactly I tried, but I used 
-i instead and did not investigate if -r and -x is supposed to work 
together.

I can try it again with better attention.

> There are at least three other ways to do something similar. One would
> be to use -i instead of -x, another would be an +IGNOREME file. Read
> the man page for how to use the latter.
> 
> Yet another way to do what you proposed in the part of your post that
> I snipped (building based on a list) would have been to do this:
> 
> pkg_info -q -R firefox-2* > list
> portmaster `cat list`
> 
> That's probably the simplest way to do what you were trying to
> accomplish, and would have had the benefit of portmaster caching all
> the data on up to date dependencies, and building the things in the
> list in proper dependency order. Sorry to jump in after the fact with
> this news, but hopefully it will help someone else.

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Miroslav Lachman