portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Fri Jul 31 11:32:29 UTC 2009


Cezary Morga wrote:
> Alson van der Meulen pisze:
> 
>> * Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> [2009-07-29 22:10]:
>>
>>> I'm planning to remove the -u option altogether. It actually does very
>>> little now, and certainly does not do what most users expect it should
>>> do.
> 
> 
> If I may chip in here on a similar note.
> I'm currently looking for a port management tool that might replace good 
> ol' portinstall/portupgrade tools in my toolbox. Portmaster looks 
> promising but I noticed that it doesn't seem to take BATCH=yes in my 
> /etc/make.conf into consideration. So, is it me or there's something 
> more I have to do?

I think BATCH=yes is unrelated to portmaster. This variable is (should 
be) read by port build process it-self as if you build it by command cd 
/usr/ports/category/port & make install clean

Miroslav Lachman


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