Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 16:58:26 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports usage question: semi-unattended mass upgrades Message-ID: <20031225165826.GA29694@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <87wu8ksxbq.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <87wu8ksxbq.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de>
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On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 04:59:05PM +0100, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> 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...
It's called portupgrade(8) (sysutils/portupgrade in ports).
Unlike portversion -c it will do the upgrades in the correct
dependency order, which will leave you with a correctly working
system. You can record any port options you use in
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf before you start your updating job,
including options for interactive configuration (Hint: add 'BATCH=3Dyes'
to your make options to stop the interactive screens coming up).
Cheers,
Matthew
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