portmaster, renamed ports, and DEPRECATED

[Greg Larkin]

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Doug Barton wrote:
> On 04/19/10 11:01, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 4/19/2010 9:52 AM, Greg Larkin wrote:
>>> Hi Doug,
>>>
>>> I just tried to upgrade from math/libgmp4 to math/gmp after refreshing
>>> my ports tree.  math/gmp has superseded math/libgmp4, so I used
>>> portmaster's -o option to upgrade from a new origin, e.g.:
>>>
>>>     portmaster -o math/gmp math/libgmp4
>>>
>>> I've done this in the past with no problem, but this time, the old port
>>> had already been marked DEPRECATED, and portmaster refused to continue
>>> the upgrade. I commented out the DEPRECATED variable in
>>> math/libgmp4/Makefile, and reran portmaster with no trouble.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to detect when -o is being used for an upgrade and
>>> ignore DEPRECATED on the previous port?
> 
> I just committed revision r207353 to svn which has a fix for this issue,
> thanks again for bringing it to my attention.
> 
> If there is anyone left who hasn't done this update yet, you can get
> information on downloading the svn version at
> http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html. Although I've tested it
> fairly extensively I would appreciate confirmation that it's working as
> it should.
> 
> I plan to add some more cross checking for command line stuff and to do
> a bit more regression testing tomorrow, then commit the current round of
> bug fixes to the ports tree version.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Doug
> 

Hi Doug,

Thanks for the quick turnaround for such a non-trivial patch!

Cheers,
Greg
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