Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 16:59:05 +0100 From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ports usage question: semi-unattended mass upgrades Message-ID: <87wu8ksxbq.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de>
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Say I would like to upgrade all installed packages. I already found out that I can do "portversion -c" which spits out a shell script which does this. But since it takes a long time, so I'd like to let it run over night. It seems that it can ask me a question from time to time, if the port likes to ask questions. (Last time, I was lucky and only Postfix wanted to ask me. This question came fairly early.) How do I prevent having to get up in the middle of the night to answer a question from portupgrade? (Telling me to let the upgrade run over day rather than over night is not an acceptable answer ;-) The holy grail, of course, would be that I invoke some command which asks me all questions and stores the answers somewhere, then invoke another command which actually builds and installs the ports. I could then do the question-answering in the evening, before I go to bed... Kai
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