Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:36:57 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interactive ports - the plague Message-ID: <20080303183657.059d2771@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080303172750.GB65151@atarininja.org> References: <47CBC3C5.9050007@bsdforen.de> <20080303155354.2043d131@gumby.homeunix.com.> <47CC26F3.7020709@cyberbotx.com> <20080303170457.02959c09@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080303172750.GB65151@atarininja.org>
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:27:50 -0500 Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:57PM +0000, RW wrote: > > IIRC these ports refuse to fetch the distfiles, and ask you to > > fetch them manually from the websites, where you have to agree to > > the terms, they aren't actually interactive. > > While true there are at least two ports which are interactive beyond > OPTIONS and license things. > > I know mail/postfix asks if it should activate itself in > /etc/mail/mailer.conf. > > security/tripwire asks some setup questions during the post-install. > > I don't recall how BATCH affects these two ports, if at all. tripwire is marked as interactive, so it wont build. I'm not sure about postfix. does it prompt on upgrades too?
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