On Thursday November 30, 2006 at 09:12:10 (AM) RW wrote:
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:27, Nadow wrote: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:22, Dan Sikorsky wrote: > > > Hey, I have a good question for you guys. > > > > > > Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know, portmanager -u > > > , and then left... but I know its sitting there stuck on a config window > > > waiting for someone to press enter... > > > > Even easier, use portmaster. The first thing that do when installs a > > port is making recursive all the "make config" windows of the port and > > dependencies. After you have chosen the options of the last config > > menu, it will install all the stuff till the end without interruption > > (except error of course). > > Portmanager doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, and it's by far the > slowest upgrade tool around. People who use it do so because it's the most > thorough tool around. By contrast portmaster uses a fairly minimalist > approach. > > Portmaster is a clear alternative to portupgrade, it's not really a > replacement for portmanager. I think I missed something on this thread, but I am still not clean about the 'stuck on config window' thing. Personally, I have preconfigured all of the ports I have installed on my system. Now I just have: /etc/make.com [...] BATCH=yes and everything build just fine. Obviously, you can place the 'BATCH' directive in the environment also. Actually, the only problem I use to experience was with Apsfiler. I wrote the maintainer and I believe that they corrected the problem. Yes, I definitely prefer 'portmanager' over portmaster although that is a nice light weight program. -- Gerard Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or discarded here. Don't waste your time! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"