On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 04:59:05PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > The holy grail, of course, would be that I invoke some command which > asks me all questions and stores the answers somewhere, then invoke > another command which actually builds and installs the ports. I could > then do the question-answering in the evening, before I go to bed...
It's called portupgrade(8) (sysutils/portupgrade in ports).
Unlike portversion -c it will do the upgrades in the correct
dependency order, which will leave you with a correctly working
system. You can record any port options you use in
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf before you start your updating job,
including options for interactive configuration (Hint: add 'BATCH=yes'
to your make options to stop the interactive screens coming up).
Cheers,
Matthew
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