Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:00:01 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portinstall question Message-ID: <200603292100.03100.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com> References: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 29 March 2006 08:03, Ashok Shrestha wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm installing kde on freebsd 6.0. > > portinstall -rRP x11/kde3 > > > It's been compiling for the past 2 days. (AMD XP 1900) > > 1) > The problem is that once in a while it'll come across a port that > requires user input. So I always OK the default configurations at the > blue screen. Is there a way to get portinstall to accept the default > configurations without user intervention? I tried '--yes' option but > that didn't work. > You need to set BATCH in your environment. > 2) > I expected the '-P' option to download the majority of the > dependencies as binary packages. But that doesn't seem to be the case; > it seems like everything is being compiled. Unless I unintentionally > specified '-p' (lowercase), shouldn't there be more binary downloads > and faster installs? You need a package repository with versions that match your ports tree - either 6-stable, or preferably from fruitsalad.org if it's still working. All the packages for 6.0 were built against the ports on the CD. See the handbook about packages.
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