Re: portupgrade -a useful option??

[RW]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:48:50 -0800
Vizion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gi
> 
> I just wondered whether using portupgrade -a there might be any way
> to have an initial interactive dialogue to set all option for all
> ports to be upgraded during the run so as to facilitate an attendance
> free upgrade procedure. 
> 
> Maybe there is already some way to do this - if so perhaps someone
> could enlighten me.


I use this shell script:


#!/bin/sh
plist=`pkg_version -ovl'<' |awk '{ print $1 }'`
for porg in $plist ; do
cd  /usr/ports/${porg} && make config-recursive
done
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Re: portupgrade -a useful option??

[Beech Rintoul]

On Thursday 28 December 2006 09:48, Vizion wrote:
> Gi
>
> I just wondered whether using portupgrade -a there might be any way to have
> an initial interactive dialogue to set all option for all ports to be
> upgraded during the run so as to facilitate an attendance free upgrade
> procedure.
>
> Maybe there is already some way to do this - if so perhaps someone could
> enlighten me.
>
> Thanks
>
> david

Run it in "batch" mode. From man portupgrade(1):

Run an upgrading process in a batch mode (with
BATCH=yes).

Cheers,

Beech

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