On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 08/06/2010 04:34, jhell wrote: >> Do not prompt for a backup package creation failure > > I need to add an option for this, but it will likely be an "expert" > option that you can set in the rc file. The theory is that package > creation failure should be a rare thing, and since portmaster has no way > to know what packages are really critical to any given system it treats > inability to safely recover from an upgrade failure as a critical error. > However, having the ability to disable this is an oft-requested feature, > I just haven't gotten to it yet. > >> and force creation of whatever you have on the system already? > > Not sure what this means, can you explain it in more detail?
One example I have (unfortunately): I accidentally wiped out /usr/local/. Reinstalling all my ports was easy -- first reinstall portmaster and then run "portmaster -af". The problem was that for every single port I had to say "Yes, ignore the fact that the port wasn't already there". So I had to tend the process all the way through. An option to force ignoring the package creation failure would allow that to be an unattended process. Jim _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
