On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:48:58 -0800 "Ian A. Tegebo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm interested in knowing several things: > > 1 When is a port interactive? > 2 Is there an easy way to determine the above? > 3 What are all the options for a given port? > > After doing some reading, I understand that one can learn about options > in Makefiles, running "make show-config", "make show-options", or some > other idiosyncratic method that seems to vary from port to port. > > In terms of question 1, there seems like there should be a > "IS_INTERACTIVE" variable set in the Makefile but in the example of > shells/bash-completion, there is no such variable and yet I was > presented with what I imagine was "dialog" prompting me to choose > between bash2 and the newer bash3 (default shells/bash). > > I have a hidden agenda here. I would like to be able to present > portupgrade with a list of ports, preprocess all interactive ports > before any actual building occurs, and then let portupgrade do its > thing. > > Now, I could use the "BATCH" variable to at least process all > ports that aren't interactive but that hardly seems cool when there > could be dependencies that are interactive (which would show up when I > pass -rRn to portupgrade). > > I've also taken a cursory look at portmanager and portmaster but neither > seem to fulfill my agenda. It's not that I want to simply achieve > automation, I want to do all the human work of evaluating options and > making decisions up front (without all the tedious work of poking around in > Makefiles when there are already nice things like those dialog prompts). > > Has anyone gone down this road? Does it not go anywhere? Is there a > better way to do this?
All the interactive dialogs that I've seen store the result of your choices in /var/db/ports. As a result, you never see the dialog again if you reinstall or upgrade the port. You could establish a set of options on a scratch machine, then copy the /var/db/ports directory to the new machines you are building. Also, the portupgrade.conf file allows you to add command line options for ports. See the man page for details. HTH. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"