ports/120002: portmaster won't show port's available version
Yar Tikhiy
yar at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 26 12:50:02 UTC 2008
>Number: 120002
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: portmaster won't show port's available version
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 26 12:50:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Yar Tikhiy
>Release: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
portmaster 2.0
>Description:
Portmaster provides no info on if the installed port is
up-to-date or outdated WRT /usr/ports and/or INDEX when
asking for the user's confirmation. Therefore the user
cannot cancel the update if updating to the same version,
and portmaster will do useless work.
>How-To-Repeat:
dg# portmaster portmaster
===>>> Gathering distinfo list for installed ports
===>>> Update portmaster-2.0? [n] y
===>>> Currently installed version: portmaster-2.0
===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
===>>> Gathering dependency list for ports-mgmt/portmaster from ports
===>>> No dependencies for ports-mgmt/portmaster
===>>> Starting build for ports-mgmt/portmaster <<<===
===>>> The 'make config' check found no dependencies to update
===> Cleaning for portmaster-2.0
===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===> Extracting for portmaster-2.0
===> Patching for portmaster-2.0
===> Configuring for portmaster-2.0
===>>> Creating a backup package for old version portmaster-2.0
===> Installing for portmaster-2.0
===> Generating temporary packing list
===> Checking if ports-mgmt/portmaster already installed
install -o root -g wheel -m 555 /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/work/portmaster.sh /usr/local/sbin/portmaster
install -o root -g wheel -m 444 /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/files/portmaster.8 /usr/local/man/man8
===> Compressing manual pages for portmaster-2.0
===> Registering installation for portmaster-2.0
===> Cleaning for portmaster-2.0
===>>> Re-installation of portmaster-2.0 complete
>Fix:
Printing the available version along with the installed
version would be enough. However, a better solution can
be conditional update, like in -a mode but for the listed
ports only.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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