Re: "the best" port update tool

2006-08-23 Thread Matthias Andree
"Michael W. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After a database headache caused by my own doofusity, *shrug* what would that be? In doubt, kill /usr/ports/INDEX*db and /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db, run portsdb -u ; pkgdb -Fa and see what you get. > A search of the mailing list archive doesn't seem to

Re: "the best" port update tool

2006-08-23 Thread Helge Oldach
Scot Hetzel: >On 8/23/06, Helge Oldach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/mail/fetchmail} >> .MAKEFLAGS: -DWITH_NTLM >> .endif >> >> Note specifically the ".MAKEFLAGS" trick above that IMHO won't easily >> work with portconf. >> >That will work with portconf, without using .MAKEFLAGS: >

Re: "the best" port update tool

2006-08-23 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 8/23/06, Helge Oldach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scot Hetzel: >While the portmanager, portupgrade, and portmaster tools allow you to >keep your specific port options in a file, they are incompatible with >each other and when building directly from /usr/ports, as the port >options in these sepe

Re: "the best" port update tool

2006-08-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:50:57PM +0200, Helge Oldach wrote: > Hmm... What is wrong with directly amending /etc/make.conf with, for > example: Nothing's wrong with it -- but from my perspective, it's hardly user-friendly. No, not everything should be user-friendly, but something of this nature s

Re: "the best" port update tool

2006-08-23 Thread Helge Oldach
Scot Hetzel: >While the portmanager, portupgrade, and portmaster tools allow you to >keep your specific port options in a file, they are incompatible with >each other and when building directly from /usr/ports, as the port >options in these seperate files are not available to the other tools >or to

Re: "the best" port update tool

2006-08-22 Thread Doug Barton
I wanted to let some others respond to this post before I did, but now that they have ... Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > After a database headache caused by my own doofusity, D'oh, I hate when that happens. :) > A search of the mailing list archive doesn't seem to lead me to a > clear succes

Re: "the best" port update tool

2006-08-22 Thread Eric
Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > After a database headache caused by my own doofusity, I've been > contemplating switching from portupgrade. (Hey, it's been a few > years, things could have changed.) Checking in /usr/ports/sysutils, > it seems that we have a whole bunch of different tools -- po

Re: "the best" port update tool

2006-08-22 Thread Scot Hetzel
While the portmanager, portupgrade, and portmaster tools allow you to keep your specific port options in a file, they are incompatible with each other and when building directly from /usr/ports, as the port options in these seperate files are not available to the other tools or to /usr/ports. Thi

Re: "the best" port update tool

2006-08-21 Thread Jiawei Ye
On 8/22/06, Michael W. Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, After a database headache caused by my own doofusity, I've been contemplating switching from portupgrade. (Hey, it's been a few years, things could have changed.) Checking in /usr/ports/sysutils, it seems that we have a whole bunch of