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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:47:48 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade dialogs...
Message-ID:  <200501041647.49437.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050104122135.GA57348@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
References:  <41DA7CFB.5010505@myunix.net> <20050104122135.GA57348@catflap.slightlystrange.org>

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On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:21, Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Christian Tischler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > when I run portupgrade to get my server up to date (CVS of
> > 4.9-Release),  everything works fine and smooth, until any of the ports
> > pops up an dialog and asks me what I want to compile in (e.g. cups
> > asking me about what drivers I want to install and so on).
> >
> > Now my question: Is there a way to work arround this? As my server does
> > not have a very decent CPU updating takes quite some time, and I do not
> > sit in front of my terminal all the time :-) and due to the dialogs
> > waiting for my input the update is running for three days by now...
> >
> > So any suggestions?
>
> In addition to what Stijn and Kent have already said, you can override
> the defaults by setting an appropriate value in MAKE_ARGS in
> /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.  For example, I have this set for Samba:
>
> MAKE_ARGS =3D {
>     'net/samba*' =3D> [
>         'BATCH=3Dyes',
>         'WITH_UTMP=3Dyes',
>         'WITH_SYSLOG=3Dyes',
>         'WITHOUT_CUPS=3Dyes',
>         'WITH_RECYCLE=3Dyes',
>       ],
> }
>
> At each subsequent upgrade, the configured set of options will be passed
> to the ports system.

=46rom man ports

BATCH         If defined, only operate on a port if it can be installed
                   100% automatically.

So you may find that not all your ports are upgraded.



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