Strange problem with portmaster

[Greg Byshenk]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:06:52AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I recently upgraded all the ports on a server, so I decided to run 
> portmaster -r perl to make sure all the perl ports were up to date.
> 
> I used portmaster -rfd perl and got the following error:
> /var/db/pkg/fd does not exist
> 
> I googled a bit and found nothing.  Then I thought, that's strange, fd was 
> the second and third commands.  So I ran:
> portmaster -r -f -d perl and I got /var/db/pkg/f does not exist
> 
> Then I tried portmaster -rf -d perl and got /var/db/pkg/d does not exist
> 
> I finally just ran portmaster -r perl, which worked of course.
> 
> Apparently the -r switch doesn't want to see anything after except the port 
> that's being recursively built?  I didn't try portmaster -fd -r perl. 
> Maybe I should have?

Yes, you should have, at least if you wanted the '-fd' flags.
It may not be highlighted in the man page, but it does say 
"-r name/glob of port directory in /var/db/pkg", and I've found
that the '-r' flag does require that the port follow immediately.


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greg byshenk  -  gbyshenk at byshenk.net  -  Portland, OR USA