Upgrade script

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 03:39:22 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> One more thing I spotted is that it doesn't handle
> non-default X11BASE or LOCALBASE.  Probably the way to do this is to
> use
>
> PORTSDIR?=/usr/ports
> X11BASE=`make -f ${PORTSDIR}/Mk/bsd.port.mk -V X11BASE`
>
> or similar.  Using bsd.port.mk is so it picks up the default value,
> and includes /etc/make.conf to check for override.  It also DTRT if
> X11BASE is set in the environment.

Hmm. I wouldn't use too much automagic in that case. I'm not sure it's good to 
assume that if someone has changed the defaults that this script will do the 
right thing for them regardless if it properly detects changed 
X11BASE/LOCALBASE. I'd rather say they can change variables at beginning of 
the script. Perhaps printing the message saying that this should be changed 
if using non-default (and also to change BACKUPDIR) and then ask for 
confirmation to continue?

Dejan