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From: John Remmers <remmers@jremmers.org>
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Subject: Re: upgrade 7 -> 7.2
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On May 25, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote:

>
> On Monday 25 May 2009 15:30:27 Pieter Donche wrote:
>> I have to upgrade a few FreeBSD7 machines to FreeBSD7.2
>> (this is new to me)
>> One machine has very few third party ports installed (33), the other
>> over 600 ... One of the steps is # portupgade -af, to rebuild all  
>> third
>> party software..  this took 27 minutes on the 33 packages machine..
>> So for 20 times more packages:  10 hours ???
>
> depending on the packages,
>
>> Is this normal?
>> Also, one I had one screen  asking for options for libiconv 1.11_1
>> where I had to tab to OK and press enter.
>> What is the 600 packages system has 20 of more of such screens,
>> waiting for user input. Can't one make ik automatically accept the
>> defaults?
>
> echo 'BATCH=YES' > /etc/make.conf

Better make that:  echo 'BATCH=YES' >> /etc/make.conf

-John R.