Re: Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Oct 6, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Mel wrote: On Monday 06 October 2008 21:28:25 Kelly Jones wrote: Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports "unattended" on a machine: cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install and so on (perhaps even in a shell script). T

Re: Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Mel
On Monday 06 October 2008 21:28:25 Kelly Jones wrote: > Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports "unattended" on a > machine: > > cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install > > and so on (perhaps even in a shell script). Two problems: > > % It's ugly. I'd pr

Re: Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Huff
Vincent Hoffman writes: > > I want to install 50 apps on a new server, but not have to watch it > > constantly. I want to tell ports: "just use the default options for > > now: if I'm unhappy w/ them, I'll come back, do a 'make rmconfig' and > > rebuild". > > > > How can I do this? > > add

Re: Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Kelly Jones wrote: > Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports "unattended" on a > machine: > > cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install > > and so on (perhaps even in a shell script). Two problems: > > % It's ugly. I'd prefer "cd /usr/ports; make foo/prog1

Installing multiple ports quietly and efficiently

2008-10-06 Thread Kelly Jones
Here's one way to install multiple FreeBSD ports "unattended" on a machine: cd /usr/port/foo/prog1; make install; cd/usr/ports/foo/prog2; make install and so on (perhaps even in a shell script). Two problems: % It's ugly. I'd prefer "cd /usr/ports; make foo/prog1 foo/prog2 ..." % "make instal