Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:59:19 -0700 > > From: Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > > > Skip Ford wrote: > > > > > > Well, it wasn't immediately obvious to me that someone would ever want to > > > mark a port ignore and then want to upgrade it. So, it just seemed like a > > > silly question to me (and still does to be honest, unless that's the > > > behavior of portupgrade you're trying to match.) > > > > I honestly don't know what portupgrade does in that situation. There > > are at least 2 classes of users that I am trying to "protect" in this > > case: > > 1. Users who believe that -f should override +IGNOREME > > 2. Users who create an +IGNOREME file for some reason, then forget > > it's there. > > portupgrade does the same thing except that you "hold" them instead of > ignoring them. I believe that this is the correct way. I have ports > (e.g. openoffice.org) that take a VERY long time to build or that are > run in production out of a crontab (rancid). I don't want to > inadvertently update these with the '-a' option. (Especially th latter > case.) When I really, really want to do them, I use '-f'. > > I think of '-f' as "YES, I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to update this > port now and I expect you to believe me".
I don't really have a problem with portmaster asking to build +IGNOREME ports, especially if that's how portupgrade works. But, according to the man page, portmaster asks to upgrade IGNOREME ports whenever '-a' is present. That still just seems wrong to me, and that's what bit me (holding up my build for a few hours is all.) It's been years since I used portupgrade, but I thought I remembered that +IGNOREME was designed just for that purpose: to have portupgrade automatically skip certain ports when it was invoked with '-a'. -- Skip _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
