Sets
Sets are short forms for collections of packages. They are roughly equivalent to specifying that same list of packages on the command line, however packages within a set will not be selected if installing using a set, and the set itself will be selected.
You can refer to a set using @
, followed by the set name.
E.g. portmod <prefix> merge -uDN @world
, or
portmod <prefix> merge @rebuild
.
The builtin sets include:
world
: Equivalent toselected
+system
system
: Packages required by the profile which cannot be removed.selected
: Equivalent toselected-sets
+selected-packages
selected-sets
: User-selected sets (not including builtin sets).selected-packages
: The user-selected list of packages. This includes any package you have explicitly installed (i.e. installed without the--oneshot/-1
option). It does not include dependencies which were installed implicitly. This is usually the only set you need to interact with.modules
: This is an internal convenience set which is used to refer to portmod Modules.rebuild
: Packages are added to this set automatically for certain unusual packages when they are determined to need to be rebuilt. A warning message will be displayed when you need to use this set.
You can also create custom sets
Module Sets
Added in Portmod 2.4
Sets created in the var/sets
directory within the prefix will be
used first when looking up sets. This allows portmod modules to create
and manage their own sets. Module-created sets always have priority
over sets.