Working on FLAVOR support in portmaster

[Jim Trigg]

I volunteer to test.

Thanks,
Jim Trigg


On December 5, 2017 4:35:05 AM EST, Torsten Zuehlsdorff <tz at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>Aloha Stefan,
>On 05.12.2017 08:35, Stefan Esser wrote:
>> Am 05.12.17 um 00:43 schrieb Tatsuki Makino:
>>> By the way, where is the clever way to update to flavor?
>>> I am using portmaster.
>> 
>> I'm working on FLAVOR support in portmaster. My version did already
>build
>> all updated ports, the FLAVOR parameter is passed to build
>sub-processes,
>> but there is still some confusion between multiple flavored versions
>of the
>> same port (installing the py27 version wants to deinstall the py36
>version
>> and vice versa), which I still have to fix.
>
>Great news. I was starting today and just read your email. Lucky me :D
>
>> My work version has all non PKG_NG support stripped, but that is
>mainly to
>> not waste effort fixing irrelevant sub-routines.
>> 
>> Is it acceptable, to have portmaster stop supporting the old package
>system?
>> AFAIK, there is no way that a modern ports tree with flavor support
>works
>> with a non-PKG_NG infrastructure?
>
>This was something i aimed for in portmaster 2 since many changes were 
>very subtle and there is no test-suite.
>
>But if there are some volunteers to test, i'm fine with it right now.
>
>Greetings,
>Torsten
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