I am impatient by nature. Nowadays, whenever I use portinstall/portupgrade, I use the --batch option, so that I don't have to sit around at the console, waiting for and then accepting the default build options for a boatload of depended-upon ports for whatever I am actually trying to install or upgrade.
However there's one instance where I don't know how to get this functionality, i.e. the functionality provided by the --batch option. On this page: http://cnsnap.cn.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html in Section 4.5.4.2, a user who is just installing a new system is instructed to do the following: # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade # make install clean (You have to do this in order to get portinstall/portupgrade installed. These tools can then be used to build & install other ports.) The problem is that these days, portupgrade itself is, apparently, dependent upon a whole slew of other ports. So while building portupgrade itself it appears that there is currently no escape from having to sit at the console and accept a whole bunch of default options for the whole bunch of other ports upon which portupgrade itself depends. Or is there? _______________________________________________ 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"
