Portmaster 3.1 upgrade

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sun Oct 31 18:57:49 UTC 2010


On 31/10/2010 17:56, Freddie Cash wrote:
> The correct command is:  pkg_delete -xf portmaster
> 
> -x does name globbing internally to pkg_delete, and should be used
> over any shell globbing (like *).
> 

So dogmatic.  '-x' is one alternative.  A globbing expression is
another.  Either can be useful, and either should be used at will and as
circumstances warrant.

Also note that

   pkg_delete -xf portmaster

is technically not equivalent to

   pkg_delete -f portmaster\*

Instead it's equivalent to

   pkg_delete -f \*portmaster\*

In this case it's an academic distinction because the results are
exactly the same.  For some other terms, that is certainly not the case.
 Eg. On my server at the moment:

pkg_info -Ix mysql
apr-ipv6-devrandom-db48-mysql51-1.4.2.1.3.10 Apache Portability Library
mysql-client-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (client)
mysql-connector-java-5.1.12 MySQL Connector/J: JDBC interface for MySQL
mysql-scripts-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (scripts)
mysql-server-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (server)
mysqltuner-1.1.0    A Script Assist You with MySQL Configuration
p5-DBD-mysql-4.017  MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
php5-mysql-5.3.3_2  The mysql shared extension for php
php5-mysqli-5.3.3_2 The mysqli shared extension for php

Compare with:

% pkg_info -I mysql\*
mysql-client-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (client)
mysql-connector-java-5.1.12 MySQL Connector/J: JDBC interface for MySQL
mysql-scripts-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (scripts)
mysql-server-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (server)
mysqltuner-1.1.0    A Script Assist You with MySQL Configuration

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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