Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > IIRC portmaster only creates packages as backup of the installed version > just in case the new package will fail it can reinstall the old one [snip] > Note that the backup thing of portmaster could now possibly be removed > since the ports tree support staging because now the ports tree checks > that everything is ok before installing on the system, but that would > require even more refactoring.
FWIW: a) Portmaster creates backup packages of currently installed versions, to allow rollback indeed. b) Portmaster can build new packages of the new versions, e.g. for a local repository. c) Note that both use "pkg create" or "pkg_create", not "make package". Out of the box, Portmaster does (a) and not (b), but this can easily be changed through commandline options and/or a configuration file. There- fore, I'd recommend simply changing the default setting of (a) from on to off instead of removing feature (a) altogether. AvW -- I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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