portupgrade + FLAVORS

Marco Beishuizen mbeis.bsd at xs4all.nl
Mon Apr 8 06:48:24 UTC 2019


On Sun, 7 Apr 2019, the wise Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

> For any portupgrade users still out there wishing for FLAVOR support, I 
> have patches to add it.  I've been running them here locally for a few 
> weeks without incident (apart from an extra upgrade or two actually 
> working without manual intervention/resort to portmaster, that is). 
> Dropping the attached patch into 
> $PORTS/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/files/patch-flavors and rebuilding it is a 
> simple shortcut to getting it in place.
>
> I haven't done any testing of using portupgrade with pre-built packages 
> (is there even any reason to post-pkg?), or using portinstall (never saw 
> the point), but it seems to handle the upgrading path just fine.
>
> Also sitting in a PR upstream at 
> https://github.com/freebsd/portupgrade/pull/72

Thanks! Portupgrade is still my favorite so I'll definitely try the patch.
Any reason why not just submit it in Bugzilla?

Regards,
Marco

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