sysutils/puppet: disabling freebsd ports package provider

[Mark Foster]

On 04/06/2010 01:40 PM, Russell Jackson wrote:
> Is there any objection to the ports provider being disabled on FreeBSD 
> systems since it mostly just causes puppet to hang anyway? I've had no 
> luck in fixing it. The problem is that portupgrade and script don't 
> interact well when running non-interactively.
>
> I've been running it this way in a local port, and I'm thinking of 
> disabling it in the official port as well. I'd post a patch for 
> upstream as well. If there are no objections, I'll submit a PR for the 
> change by the end of the week.
>
> Thanks,

Has this broken behavior been confirmed by anyone else?
I'd like to see the ports provider fixed, if possible. Is portmaster a 
more suitable back-end?

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