Tatsuki Makino wrote on 2023/10/23 08:03: > Now assume two imaginary flags. > One flag is to forcefully update, and the other is to use a mechanism to > allow a restart in case of failure. > If -f is used there, all of them will be flagged to be forced to update and > to be restartable in case of failure. -R can be used. > If -f is used there, it is already determined to force update, so it only > activates the feature that allows restart on failure. > The above two flags change depending on the -f option and the way the port to > be updated is given.
I thought this was the case, but when I actually tried it, everything I wrote here was a lie :) -f behaves differently enough to tell you not to use it :) This -f also propagates to all *_DEPENDS ports and attempts to rebuild them. Therefore, it should not be used in perl updates. The only way to use -R to restart from a failure in the middle of the process seems to be to use -r. Otherwise, reassign and run what was written out to portmasterfail.txt However, the only way to force a rebuild for -a is to use -f. The fact that the target is -a hides this inconvenient behavior. Regards.
