portmaster: problem with --packages-build?

Alberto Villa avilla at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 11 22:57:23 UTC 2010


On Friday 11 June 2010 22:45:26 Doug Barton wrote:
> The "build-only"ness of a port is calculated per portmaster run, so 
your
> results are not unexpected, even if they are not desirable.
> 
> What needs to be done is to add code that tests whether ports 
marked
> build only for a given portmaster run are also listed as 
dependencies in
> an already installed port,

i would suggest just checking if the port is already installed

> but that's a non-trivial issue and my time
> right now is dominated by trying to find work, which unfortunately
> leaves little time available for portmaster hacking.
> 
> My only suggestion (which admittedly is inadequate) is to apply the
> --delete-build-only knob on a case by case basis rather than having 
it
> in portmaster.rc.

don't worry! thank you for the answer, and keep focusing on your life 
;)
-- 
Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla at FreeBSD.org>
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla

What do you have when you have six lawyers buried up to their necks 
in sand?
Not enough sand.
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