Re: portmaster and CR

On Wed, 6 Sep 2023 12:14:33 -0400
Vlad Markov <dvoich@optonline.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 01:10:30 +0200
> Morgan Wesström <freebsd-database@pp.dyndns.biz> wrote:
> 
> > On 2023-09-02 00:09, Vlad Markov wrote:  
> > > 
> > > I use portmaster to update my ports. Usually there are many ports needing updating. Recently, portmaster requires a carriage return after finishing one update before it will resume.
> > > 
> > > I find that annoying. Is there a way to get it to just keep going? I can see stopping on an error but not stopping on success.    
> > 
> > This is what I use for that exact purpose:
> > 
> > portmaster -aydbg
> >   
> 
> Thanks, your post made me check my arguments to portmaster. The only times it requires a carriage return is if I use "-P" or "--packages".
> 
> The debug looks like this:
> 
> + distfiles_checked=:
> + [ ! ' KhronosGroup-Vulkan-Loader-v1.3.262_GH0.tar.gz ' '=' ' KhronosGroup-Vulkan-Loader-v1.3.263_GH0.tar.gz ' ]
> + pm_wait_di_file_complete
> + [ -z '' ]
> + head -1
> 
> I'll look more deeply at it.
> -- 

What goes on is that DI_FILES is the empty string so head is waiting for some input which I give by entering a carriage return. I added a check for the empty string. It works for me. I am not sure what I encountered is a bug or not.

 1226     if [ -z "$di_file_complete" ] && [ -n "$DI_FILES" ] && [ `head -1 $D
I_FILES` = '############' ]; then


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