Status of portupgrade and portmaster?

abi abi at abinet.ru
Mon Oct 2 10:41:49 UTC 2017


02.10.2017 13:05, Vlad K. пишет:
> On 2017-10-02 11:57, abi wrote:
>> 2. Dependency chain is not updated - if I disable B feature on port A,
>> poudriere asks me for options of ports implementing B. I have to
>> Ctrl+C after any option change.
>
>
> I find that annoying as well, but.... isn't that just how the 
> config-recursive ports framework target works? Poudriere is really 
> using the ports make targets here.
>
> Do synth or portmaster do it differently?
>
>

portmaster has special handling for that - after dialog4ports 
invocation, it updates dependency chain of edited port with applied 
options and proceeds with real dependencies only. The thing poudrere 
could borrow, from my point of view.

synth doesn't have tools to edit options, it reads only.



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