Jerry <freebsd.u...@seibercom.net> writes:

> On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:05:33 -0500
> Doug Poland <d...@polands.org> articulated:
>
>> If I understand the OPs question correctly, I believe setting the
>> environment variable BATCH=yes will give desired results with
>> portupgrade.  This will cause port compile defaults to be used in
>> lieu of an existing /var/db/ports/*/options file.
>
> I was of the opinion, and I could be wrong, that setting 'BATCH=yes'
> simply stopped the build process from attempting to create an options
> file; however, it would use an existing one if it was present. Perhaps
> someone with more intimate knowledge of this would care to comment. I
> say this because I have used the BATCH technique once I had all of my
> ports configured the way I wanted. Subsequent updates always appeared to
> use any existing configuration files.

In two minutes of looking at bsd.port.mk, 
I confirmed that this is correct.
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Reply via email to