Development of FreeBSD ports management utility designed to be suitable for reinstallation of all packages afrer major version upgrade of the system or very long absence of ports upgrade.
The current implementation pursues a replacement of portupgrade and portmaster to facilitate the perfect upgrade of the whole packages in heavly customized systems by configuration compatible with portupgrade. Most of the issues in /usr/ports/UPDATING are resolved automatically. Robust restarting functionality against manual/sudden termination is also pursued for facilitating package build in busy or low-performance machines. Utilities for building packages in a chroot
environment are also developed for safe upgrade.
portsreinstall is a ports upgrading utility for massive forced reinstalltion.
In this version, improvements are made so as to avoid repeating wasteful reinstallation whose required ports are not updated due to failures.
Some bug fixes are also made.
2.2.0 (17 December 2012)
[NEW] Command of show todo_next is added.
[CHANGED] Changes are made so as to skip wasteful reinstallation where the target port is already reinstalled once (with -q option, when its version is up-to-date) and no change has been made for either of its requirements afterwards.
[CHANGED] The default settings in portsreinstall.conf was changed so as to include a HOLD pattern for bsdpan.
[BUG FIX] There was a problem in evaluating glob patterns expressing origins.
[BUG FIX] Minor inappropriate messages and actions emerged when the target and replacement of ports substitution become the same.
[BUG FIX] The help messages and this manual page lacked the descriptions about show redo command.
2.1.0 (10 December 2012)
[NEW] New generation package (pkgng) is supported.
[IMPROVED] A countermeasure for a build failure in a restarted build from a terminated build is implemented.
[BUG FIX] Restoration of backup packages after failed installation was not working correctly.
[BUG FIX] The transferring mechanism of option values to restarted run was broken.
[BUG FIX] Error end in case that no packages are installed is fixed.
[BUG FIX] A glob evaluation routine used when ports_glob(1) is not installed was broken.
2.0.0 (12 August 2012)
[NEW] Options -X, -r and -R are added so as to compensate a fact that -x, -t and -T cannot specify package names with commas.
[NEW] Commands of show requirements and show dependents are added.
[NEW] A functionality of self-update is added so as to be carried out first if the port of portsreinstall is new.
[NEW] Option -k is added for cases that update of portsreinstall should be avoided.
[IMPROVED] Messages are extended to output configuration parameter values.
[CHANGED] Functionalities of options -t and -T are changed so as to prevent deinstallation of irrelevant packages and detect obsolete installed dependencies.
[CHANGED] Use of commas as delimiters in ok and taboo commands is abolished.
[CHANGED] The specification of show command is changed to exclude irrelevant packages/ports and output messages about the matching targets when options -r, -R, -t and -T are enabled.
[CHANGED] The default behavior in case that the temporal database is older than the ports tree is changed from warnings to automatic reconstruction; the old behavior is recovered by option -c.
[BUG FIX] Termination message is corrected (portsreinstall ok => portsreinstall ok add).
[BUG FIX] Values of BEFOREBUILD, BEFOREDEINSTALL and AFTERINSTALL were not correctly imported from pkgtools.conf(5).
[BUG FIX] The file name given by save command was with a wrong time stamp.
1.1.0 (28 April 2012)
[NEW] Command of show deleted is newly added.
[CHANGED] Origin names in messages and results of show command are changed to be accompanied with package names.
[CHANGED] The default option for treating pkgtools.conf(5) is changed to -p and -Q is newly added.
[IMPROVED] Custom make environment variables and arguments are changed to be reflected in the phase of inspection of dependencies.
[IMPROVED] Command of show todo is now available before starting reinstallation.
[BUG FIX] Independence from ports-mgmt/portupgrade* was incomplete.
[BUG FIX] Error messages for show command when the temporal database does not exist are improved.
[BUG FIX] Ports with names contaning '+' were not correctly treated.
[BUG FIX] Save and load commands were broken.
[BUG FIX] Deletion of MOVED-back packages is now prevented.
1.0.0 (14 March 2012)
[MISC] Explanations for -p and -P are revised because the previous ones were somewhat confusing.
[MISC] The output device of helps is changed from stderr to stdout.
[MISC] Messages for termination during deinstallation and reinstallation are improved by showing the target port/package names at that time.
[BUG FIX] Glob patterns for package/port names were not fully supported.
[BUG FIX] Values of MARG_* and MENV_* (MAKE_ARGS and MAKE_ENV in pkgtools.conf(5)) were not working.
[BUG FIX] Globs of obsolete packages were not detected, so especially HOLD_PKGS and IGNORE_MOVED in pkgtools.conf(5) and portsreinstall.conf had lost their functionalities.
[BUG FIX] Values of IGNORE_MOVED partially overwrote HOLD_PKGS in pkgtools.conf(5).
[BUG FIX] Typographic and grammatical errors in the main script and documents are revised.
0.13.1 (29 October 2011)
[BUG FIX] Inspection of missing ports was incomplete.
[BUG FIX] Origin names with '+' were not correctly treated.
[IMPROVED] Inspection of dependencies of installed packages gets faster.
0.13.0 (28 August 2011)
[IMPROVED] Phase of "Order the ports considering dependencies" is accelerated.
0.12.0 (22 June 2011)
[NEW] -q, -d and -N options are added.
[CHANGED] Settings for -x and -s options becomes to be transferred to restarted runs.
0.11.0 (17 May 2011)
[NEW] Causes of errors are added to the report of failed ports.
[CHANGED] Functionality of -t option is changed and partly splitted into -T.
[IMPROVED] Refetch after fetch failure becomes smarter so as not to clean up distfiles.
[MISC] Terminology 'abort' is corrected to be 'terminate'.
0.10.0 (11 Mar 2011)
[NEW] Version check for temporal database and portupgrade is added (as a template).
[BUG FIX] Old packages for ports whose package names was renamed were not deleted.
[BUG FIX] Duplicated cleans were executed after successful installation.
0.9.8 (02 Mar 2011)
[MISC] Installation methods of non-executable files in Makefile are improved again.
0.9.7 (02 Mar 2011)
[MISC] Installation methods of non-executable files in Makefile are improved.
0.9.6 (01 Mar 2011)
[BUG FIX] Fix at version 0.9.5 was incomplete.
[BUG FIX] The update date of 0.9.5 was wrong in the manpage.
0.9.5 (28 Feb 2011)
[BUG FIX] "install" target in Makefile installed non-executable files as executables.
0.9.4 (17 Jan 2011)
[BUG FIX] "all" target in Makefile was missing.
0.9.3 (16 Jan 2011)
[MISC] Makefile is modified to compress manpage in the build process.
0.9.2 (10 Jan 2011)
[MISC] The 2-Clause BSD License is applied from this version.
[NEW] Manpage is created.
[NEW] Makefile for installation/uninstallation is added.
[BUG FIX] Recovery from distfile checksum error was broken.
0.9.1 (27 Dec 2010)
[BUG FIX] Wrong warning for -p/-P options in the first run.
[BUG FIX] Broken support of recursive chase of MOVED ports.
[BUG FIX] Option configuration menus were not accessable.
[BUG FIX] The mechanism of loading the configuration file was broken.
[BUG FIX] Optionally added taboo ports were not always effective in restart.
0.9.0 (21 Nov 2010)
First version.
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