Workflow for not blowing away state (was Re: [96136] trunk/base)

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Sep 12, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Clemens Lang wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:13:41PM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>> Is there an equivalently easy way to get base to think that the
>> Portfile isn't newer?  What is everyone else's new workflow?
> 
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 06:19:09PM -0400, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> I usually edit the statefile (dot file inside work/).
> 
> I usually use -o, as Bradley already pointed out:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:36:12PM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> Doen't "port -o" do what you want?
>> 
>> $ man port | col -b | grep -- " -o"
>>     -o       honor state files even if the Portfile has been modified since
>> 	      (called -o because it used to mean "older")
> 
> that still requires you to remember specifying -o

I try to stay in the habit of using the shells history (up arrow) to reissue the commands, saves cursing at big packages when you forget -o.

Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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