How to with portmaster?

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Wed Aug 6 13:54:09 UTC 2008


Howdy,

I felt adventurous and installed portmaster , and got rid of portupgrade... happy so far, except I miss the functionality of pkgtools.conf , in particular, the ALT_PKG_DEP functionality. 

for example, I use firefox 3. I don't want ffox 2 as well.... i am reinstalling www/mplayer-plugin...and its going for firefox2 ... 

How do I handle this? 

FWIW, here is my full ALT_PKG_DEP list:

 ALT_PKGDEP = {
    'apache13-*' => 'apache2*',
    'apache-1.3.*' => 'apache-2.*',
    'archivers/lzo' => 'archivers/lzo2',
    'lzo-1*' => 'lzo2*',
    'databases/gnomedb' => 'databases/gnome-db',
    'databases/postgresql74-client' => 'databases/postgresql83-client',
    'databases/postgresql74-server' => 'databases/postgresql83-server',
    'devel/gnomevfs' => 'devel/gnomevfs2',
    'devel/libglade' => 'devel/libglade2',
    'diablo-jdk15' => 'jdk16',
    'devel/goffice04' => 'devel/goffice',
    'java/jdk15' => 'java/jdk16',
    'jdk15*' => 'jdk16',
    'lang/php4' => 'lang/php5',
    'libglade-0*' => 'libglade2*',
    'net/howl' => 'net/avahi',
    'net/mDNSResponder' => 'net/mDNSResponder',
    'openldap-client-2.2.*' => 'openldap-client-2.3.*',
    'pkg-config-*' =>  'pkgconfig-*',
    'postgresql74-client' => 'postgresql83-client',
    'postgresql74-server' => 'postgresql83-server',
    'www/libgtkhtml' => 'www/gtkhtml3',
    'www/gtkhtml' => 'www/gtkhtml3',
    'www/gtkhtml38' => 'www/gtkhtml3',
    'www/neon26' => 'www/neon28',
    'neon26-*' => 'neon28-*',
    'gtkhtml-3.8.*' => 'gtkhtml3-3.*',
    'www/mozilla' => 'www/firefox3',
    'www/firefox' => 'www/firefox3',
    'firefox-2*' => 'firefox-3*',
    'print/ghostscript-gpl' => 'print/ghostscript-afpl',
  }



cheers!
B
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