gnome update

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 10/23/06, Ganbold <ganbold at micom.mng.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to update gnome to 2.16 using portmaster for more than 3 days :(

portmaster is good, but you really should use portupgrade
if you're stumbling over and over again.

> 1. Every time after some error when I try to run portmaster -r pkg-config\*
> it starts from the beginning. Maybe there is some option to skip updated
> ports. How to tell portmaster to skip updated ports?

No. Neither portmaster, nor portupgrade has this option, or
any session management for that matter.

> 2. After upgrading some port it asks whether to delete the source file
> or not. I don't want to press button everytime.
> Is it possible to have option something like '[y][n][Allyes][allnO]'?

-D switch disables distfile-cleaning functionality

> 3. While portmaster running, I manually updated libtheora port. When
> portmaster reaches libtheora, it stops with error.
> Is it possible for portmaster to give user some choices in this case
> like "[Skip]..."?

IIRC, it's on Doug's todo list.