i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster

[Martin Schweizer]

Hello Sandra

I was in a similar situation. I found the following paramters very usefull:

portmaster -a -d --no-confirm

-a: Take all installed ports
-d: Delete any dependicies
-no--confirm: Wait not after the check which ports are upgradable

With the above switch portmaster waits in two case:
1. If you run in an compile error
2. If the port is new and will asks you about make config

I did now three upgrades like above and it worked as expected.

Regards,



2010/8/6 Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelmann at googlemail.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 08/06/2010 00:24, Sandra Kachelmann wrote:
>>> I've been using ports-mgmt/portupgrade pretty much ever since it
>>> started to exist. Unfortunately portupgrade seems to be pretty much
>>> "abandonware" so I've been told to move on to portmaster. Despite the
>>> very long manpage I can't seem to be able to achieve the following
>>> thing with portmaster:
>>>
>>> $ portupgrade --batch -a
>>
>> Someone who has used portupgrade and is familiar with exactly what
>> --batch does can probably help you with that bit, but I'm sure by now
>> you've figured out that portmaster has a -a feature.
>>
>> Meanwhile, go get a $BEVERAGE, get comfortable, and actually _read_ the
>> portmaster man page, don't just skim through it. I put a lot of effort
>> into explain what portmaster does, how it does it, and also WHY it does
>> things the way it does. Most (if not all) of your questions are answered
>> there.
>
> Please don't take this wrong but IMO it's way too overdocumented for
> normal users that don't actually read bsd.ports.mk before breakfast
> :-)
>
> Sandra
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