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Automating ports update with portmaster
How can I automate ports update to keep it constantly current or 'near current'. I was thinking of running a cron job but was finally stymied by the realization of the need for considerable manual intervention
I am upgrading ports with portmaster and running in to frequent "Aborts" because of "IGNORE=" condtions in Makefiles or "IGNORE" in ports themselves. These are apparently associated with relocation of the base system of the respective port. These apparently neccesitates removal of the offending IGNORE= containing line in the Makefile and restarting.How can one circumvent these. Thanks |
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I'm using portupgrade for upgrades and it comes with an option to hand BATCH over to every port - maybe portmaster provides the same. |
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Yes, I'll second the notion that updating ports automagically is a bad idea. You don't want that headache. My advice is update only when necessary, and at that, only the ports that need updates. The last thing you want to do is break some user's PHP script because you updated PHP and there was some funky change.
Then again, if this is only a "workstation" you don't necessarily have to worry about that, but it's still a bad idea.
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