Updating multiple ports with portmaster

[J. Hellenthal]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:47, dougb@ wrote:
> On 3/26/2011 8:22 AM, Ron (Lists) wrote:
>> I have a questions about the use of portmaster when upgrading multiple
>> ports and how to correctly use wildcards.
>> 
>> For example, I have this from pkg_version:
>> 
>> p5-Digest-SHA-5.50 < needs updating (port has 5.61)
>> p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.38 < needs updating (port has 1.39)
>> p5-IPC-Cmd-0.68 < needs updating (port has 0.70)
>> p5-Math-BigInt-1.99 < needs updating (port has 1.993)
>> p5-Module-Build-0.3607_1 < needs updating (port has 0.3624)
>> p5-Module-CoreList-2.42 < needs updating (port has 2.45)
>> p5-Module-Load-Conditional-0.38 < needs updating (port has 0.44)
>> p5-Params-Check-0.26_1 < needs updating (port has 0.28)
>> p5-Test-Harness-3.22 < needs updating (port has 3.23)
>> p5-URI-1.56 < needs updating (port has 1.58)
>> 
>> When I was using portupgrade, I could type...
>> 
>> portupgrade p5-*
>> 
>> ...and it would upgrade only the ports that needed upgrading and
>> dependancies. But if I try...
>> 
>> portmaster p5-*
>> 
>> ===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed:
>> Re-install p5-Digest-SHA1-2.13
>> Re-install p5-IO-Compress-2.033
>> Re-install p5-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.033
>> Re-install p5-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.033
>> Re-install p5-HTML-Tagset-3.20
>> Re-install p5-HTML-Parser-3.68
>> Upgrade p5-Digest-SHA-5.50 to p5-Digest-SHA-5.61
>> Re-install p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1_3
>> Re-install p5-Archive-Tar-1.76
>> Re-install p5-IO-Zlib-1.10_1
>> Re-install p5-IO-String-1.08
>> Re-install p5-Package-Constants-0.02
>> Re-install p5-Encode-Detect-1.01
>> Re-install p5-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.2802_1,1
>> Upgrade p5-IPC-Cmd-0.68 to p5-IPC-Cmd-0.70
>> Re-install p5-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.21
>> Upgrade p5-Module-Load-Conditional-0.38 to p5-Module-Load-Conditional-0.44
>> Upgrade p5-Module-CoreList-2.42 to p5-Module-CoreList-2.45
>> Re-install p5-Module-Load-0.18
>> Upgrade p5-Params-Check-0.26_1 to p5-Params-Check-0.28
>> Re-install p5-version-0.88
>> Upgrade p5-Module-Build-0.3607_1 to p5-Module-Build-0.3624
>> Install devel/p5-CPAN-Meta-YAML
>> Re-install p5-ExtUtils-Install-1.54
>> Re-install p5-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.22.03
>> Install devel/p5-Module-Metadata
>> Install devel/p5-Perl-OSType
>> Upgrade p5-Test-Harness-3.22 to p5-Test-Harness-3.23
>> Re-install p5-Net-DNS-0.66_1
>> Re-install p5-Net-IP-1.25_2
>> Re-install p5-IO-Socket-INET6-2.65
>> Re-install p5-Socket6-0.23
>> Re-install p5-Digest-HMAC-1.02
>> Re-install p5-Mail-Tools-2.07
>> Re-install p5-TimeDate-1.20,1
>> Re-install p5-NetAddr-IP-4.038
>> Upgrade p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.38 to p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.39
>> Re-install p5-Net-SSLeay-1.36
>> Re-install p5-libwww-5.837
>> Upgrade p5-URI-1.56 to p5-URI-1.58
>> Re-install p5-YAML-Tiny-1.44
>> Re-install p5-Time-HiRes-1.9721,1
>> Re-install p5-Locale-gettext-1.05_3
>> Upgrade p5-Math-BigInt-1.99 to p5-Math-BigInt-1.993
>> Re-install p5-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.56
>> Re-install p5-MIME-Base64-3.13
>> Re-install p5-YAML-0.72
>> Re-install p5-Error-0.17016
>> Re-install p5-Net-DNS-Resolver-Programmable-0.003
>> Re-install p5-Mail-SPF-2.007
>> 
>> ...it wants to upgrade and reinstall every port that I have installed
>> that begins with p5-*
>> 
>> Is there a way to get portmaster to behave like portupgrade did and only
>> upgrade what needs to be upgraded?
>
> Not directly. You could mimic the behavior using the -i option with either 
> 'portmaster -a' or 'portmaster p5-'. And to answer your likely followup 
> question, I have no plans to add such an option. :)
>

Hi Doug, ...Everyone else,

Since were on the (-i) subject here.

Do you have any plans in the near future to implement a way for <end-user> 
to change the default questioning response from [y] to [n] ?

This would be extremely helpful to those users in these circumstances at 
what seems not that much effort to do so.


[y] makes sense when using (-a) where portmaster will only be upgrading 
what has upgrades available.

[n] makes sense when doing most anything else I can think of since its 
interactive but should be chosen by the user.


This is speaking strictly in the sense of:
"===>>> Update portname-X.Y,Z? y/n [y]"

And with the above list of ports I think I would rather hit [Return] 50 
times than [n][Return]



Thanks

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  Regards,

  J. Hellenthal
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  JJH48-ARIN