Re: portmaster -R (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...)

On Wednesday 29 July 2009 10:48:33 Doug Barton wrote:
> Alson van der Meulen wrote:
> > * Doug Barton <dougb_at_FreeBSD.org> [2009-07-29 18:13]:
> >> Mel Flynn wrote:
> >>> Gotcha. Is there a reason the flags are removed if the options are not
> >>> "-r or -f"?
> >>
> >> Yes, so we don't have stale flags sitting around forever to confuse
> >> future runs.
> >
> > I have been bitten by this in the past. A run of portmaster -r
> > some-lib-that-half-of-my-ports-depend-on aborted because of a shared
> > library error in a dependency which was not recompiled before the
> > dependent port. I recompiled the dependency with a manual portmaster
> > $portname, after this portmaster -r had to start all over. I didn't
> > expect portmaster to clear the PM_DONE flags during non-resumable
> > operations like rebuilding a single port (and the manpage contains very
> > little information about -R). My workaround is to use portupgrade for
> > these manual fixes.
>
> Yes, I've been considering that exact scenario since atm I'm
> rebuilding all my ports with -afR.
>
> How about this? When the user has -[rf] but not -R, and there are flag
> files present, ask if they should be cleared before beginning to do
> anything. Otherwise (no -[rf]) ignore them. Sound good?

That's definitely "what you would expect it to do".
-- 
Mel