thank you for portmaster
Hey Just thought I'd drop a line to thank you for creating portmaster. After discovering it yesterday thanks to a tip I got from somebody on IRC, it has now completely replaced portupgrade for me. Keep up the great work! Sincerely, - Dan Naumov ___ 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
Re: thank you for portmaster
Dan Naumov wrote: Hey Just thought I'd drop a line to thank you for creating portmaster. After discovering it yesterday thanks to a tip I got from somebody on IRC, it has now completely replaced portupgrade for me. Keep up the great work! Thank you for the kind words, they are greatly appreciated. :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ 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
Re: thank you for portmaster
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Dan Naumovdan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Just thought I'd drop a line to thank you for creating portmaster. After discovering it yesterday thanks to a tip I got from somebody on IRC, it has now completely replaced portupgrade for me. Keep up the great work! Thank you for the email, I am a portupgrade user, and I was unaware that there were other options. I will give portmaster a try. Sam Fourman Jr. ___ 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
Re: Thank you for portmaster
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 06:47 pm, Sticky Bit wrote: first let me thank you for developing such a nice tool! After so long time using portupgrade I gave portmaster a chance to convince me in daily usage. Now I am very happy with this decision and I begin to really like portmaster. One feature I would like to see implemented is a switch 'list only ports that have available updates'. I want to know all affected ports in summary before the builds so I am able to make decisions (i.e. 'portmaster -a' or just 'portmaster port', and think of the 'devel/gettext' update or other huge / long builds like gnome / gtk+ etc.). I am aware of the '-L' switch and the possibility to grep such ports. But this is a bit odd and not very likable. I want a similar output like 'portversion -vL=', i.e. port name along with old and new version numbering but only for ports with a different version available than installed (can also be an older version, think of a manually modified ports tree). Could you please add this small feature? Then I am actually able to do without portupgrade and its other tools. Use the right tool for the job: pkg_version. :) What you want is: pkg_version -vl '' That will list all the installed apps that have updates available in the ports tree. Combine that with a little work using pkg_info -rx appname and pkg_info -Rx appname to see dependencies, and you can determine how to call portmaster. Read the man pages for pkg_info, pkg_add, pkg_version, and pkg_delete, to see all the things you can do with the ports/packages system. Those, combined with portmaster, make for an excellent little ports toolkit. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thank you for portmaster
Read the man pages for pkg_info, pkg_add, pkg_version, and pkg_delete, to see all the things you can do with the ports/packages system. Those, combined with portmaster, make for an excellent little ports toolkit. I am using FreeBSD for several years. I really know these tools very well and I already know what I want. They are part of my daily usage. So no help needed. ;-) Maybe you did not understand my intention. It is not a matter of what can be done with other tools but what can be done with portmaster. It was only a feature suggestion to improve portmaster not a request for help. Hope that makes it clear ... -- Kind regards, Sticky Bit *** True standards compliant plain text emails preferred. *** ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thank you for portmaster
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 01:07 pm, Sticky Bit wrote: Read the man pages for pkg_info, pkg_add, pkg_version, and pkg_delete, to see all the things you can do with the ports/packages system. Those, combined with portmaster, make for an excellent little ports toolkit. I am using FreeBSD for several years. I really know these tools very well and I already know what I want. They are part of my daily usage. So no help needed. ;-) Maybe you did not understand my intention. It is not a matter of what can be done with other tools but what can be done with portmaster. It was only a feature suggestion to improve portmaster not a request for help. Hope that makes it clear ... Ah, but the Unix way is to use a handful of small single-purpose tools, not create swiss-army-knife-style tools that each try to do everything. :) Hence, why you should use pkg_add to install packages, pkg_info to get information on installed packages, pkg_version to see which installed packages have updates available, and portmaster to update installed packages. :) Personally, I'd prefer to have -L removed from portmaster completely. Or, at least the search for updates part of it. :D -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thank you for portmaster
Sticky Bit wrote: One feature I would like to see implemented is a switch 'list only ports that have available updates'. I want to know all affected ports in summary before the builds so I am able to make decisions (i.e. 'portmaster -a' or just 'portmaster port' pkg_version -Ivl'' -- Alex Dupre ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
