Doug Barton wrote:
Hans Lambermont wrote:
RW wrote:
...
I don't use portmaster myself, but I just took a look at the script and,
unless I'm missing something, it does appear that this feature is missing
from portmaster. There an option to create backup packages, but nothing to
automatically restore the previous version if the install fails.
I can confirm this. The auto-restore-backup would be a nice feature.
Doug ? ;-)
I'm extremely reluctant to start trying to think for the user. Down that
path lies madness.
It's easy enough to 'echo BACKUP=yes >> ~/.portmasterrc' (or
/etc/portmaster.rc) and then do the restore yourself if it's a port that you
consider mission critical. If you're going to add that to the rc file, I
suggest you also do 'mkdir -p /usr/ports/packages/All' and that way you'll
always know where your backups are.
hth,
Doug
Doug, I'm sorry, I love your script, but I my thoughts are that you need
to rethink this.
The problem is that if unattended, you will not know if the port was
deleted especially if you have a lot of output. This can lead to a lot
of other problems. I've looked at the script, and it seems that you
could break it down into (something like) these steps:
make (check return code, if it doesn't build, report error) and continue
script as normal.
pkg_create -b original_package_name pathto/whereveryou_wanttobackit_up)
make deinstall
make install clean (if it returns OK, delete the backed up package,
otherwise, use pkg_add from the backup)
I've probably missed some intermediate steps, but I like portmaster much
better than portupgrade, and I hope you take the time to consider this.
--
B Briggs
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