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Portmaster
I am currently trying to secure funding for continued development
of portmaster. Please see
the Portmaster Funding Proposal page
for more details. Thanks.
Does the world really need one more port management tool? Well I'm
not sure about the world, but I do know that none of the existing
options worked for me, for a variety of reasons. The two biggest
being that I do not want to have to install yet another language,
and I do not want the overhead of a database to manage the information
about what ports I have installed, etc.
The goals I started with for this project were to use /bin/sh
so that nothing else would have to be installed for it to work, and to
make use of the existing data in /var/db/pkg. I now have
something that meets those goals, and does everything I want it to do,
so I'm interested in sharing it with the community.
In addition to the above, the script has the following features:
- User can specify the port to upgrade (or install) either by
directory in /usr/ports (whether the port is already
installed or not), or by directory in /var/db/pkg
- Updates and repairs (as needed) entries for dependencies
in both +CONTENTS and +REQUIRED_BY files for
both the port that is being updated, and any ports that depend on it
- Runs make config recursively before starting build
- Recursively checks and upgrades (or installs) all dependencies
- User can force upgrades of all dependent ports
- Runs make clean before starting the build (can be disabled)
- Offers the user the opportunity to delete stale distfiles
- Supports /usr/ports/MOVED
- Reads /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc and $HOME/.portmasterrc
for global and per-user defaults. These can be overridden by
the command line
New features added based on user feedback:
- Supports non-default settings of PORTSDIR and
PKG_DBDIR
- Update all installed ports that are out of date (or add the
"force" option to update everything)
- Interactive update mode (prompts for each update)
- File glob'ing for ports in /var/db/pkg
- Option to rebuild port, and ports that depend on it
- Unattended mode which chooses defaults for portmaster options
- Downloads port distfiles in the background
There are many other features that are detailed in the manual page.
If you are interested in this script, have suggestions for
features, or other feedback, please drop me a line.
The script can now be found in ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
If you have the FreeBSD ports collection installed,
link to it here
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