Howdy! I'm very pleased to announce that the first version of portmaster with package support is ready for beta testing. :) I'd like to thank all those who have been so generous in supporting this work. It's really a great feeling not only knowing that the community is supportive of my efforts, but also to be able to finally make this feature available after so many requests have been made for it.
As you can see from the commit message below I have tried to stay (mostly) command-line compatible with portupgrade so the syntax of the new features shouldn't be a problem. For now the only available method of fetching packages is via http, I'll be working on file system support next. I don't think ftp support is going to be possible unless I can find a creative way to download a remote directory list. *** I'm sure that there are some rough edges, so if you choose to test this please back up at least your /var/db/pkg directory first. *** Things to look out for: 1. If you get a failure on not being able to find a package repository please send me the output of 'uname -r' 2. You should probably use -v to start with (if you don't already) to get an idea of what's happening behind the scenes Things I need testing for: 1. Especially if you set PACKAGESITE, I need to know how people use this, do you keep all your files in one big directory, do you keep them organized by ports category (e.g., archivers, dns, etc.)? 2. If you set the PACKAGEROOT environment variable 3. Interaction of the package stuff with "exotic" command line options. I've tried to test as many combinations as I can think of, but y'all are more creative than I am. :) If you're reporting a bug or problem please include the output of 'uname -r', what command line options you used, what you thought should happen, what actually happened, any error messages, etc. To get the new version: 1. If you have svn installed: svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/dougb/portmaster 2. Via http: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/user/dougb/portmaster Enjoy! Doug -------- Original Message -------- Subject: svn commit: r199056 - user/dougb/portmaster Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:17:15 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committ...@freebsd.org, svn-src-u...@freebsd.org Author: dougb Date: Sun Nov 8 20:17:15 2009 New Revision: 199056 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199056 Log: First run at package support! This version is functional and fairly well tested but I'm sure there are bugs and things that don't work as expected Supports the following new options: -P|--packages and -PP|--packages-only ala portupgrade --packages-if-newer This feature will allow package installation if the available package is newer than the installed version, even if it's not the latest version according to your ports tree. [1] Still to come: Support for packages on filesystem, instead of http [1] Special funding committment for this feature and package support generally by: Modirum MDpay Sponsored by: http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html Funded by: Christer Solskogen Funded by: Douglas Berry Funded by: Beat Gatzi -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ 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"
