Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:44:05 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Tom Connolly <tomc@cqg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup newbie questions Message-ID: <41C36F45.6060305@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <003b01c4e489$6497d0e0$9a11a8c0@d3stomc> References: <003b01c4e489$6497d0e0$9a11a8c0@d3stomc>
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Tom Connolly wrote: >Do a "make BATCH=yes install clean" > >Then it is set for all meta ports as well. I had to find this out the >hard way. It took 3 days to install Gnome. I kept coming back to a >menu configuration screen. > >Tom > > Yes I kinda guess that it was a make option (the small "yes" gave it away) but how does it know what make options I what compiled in? and the same for meta-ports, when there's crap loads of programs installed (gnome)? For example, how would it know that I wanted to build firefox with -O2 and newicons options? I'm guessing when installing a single port it would be easy to look at the make file and set the make options you want (like make FOOBAR=yes BATCH=yes install clean) but there's not much sense in doing that for a single port install, I don't understand how I would set the make options for a meta-port let alone even find them all with all the ports that get installed when doing meta ports, heck, on my computer alone theres 332 ports installed, I'm still trying to figure them all out so I can set them in portupgrades config file, how do I manage all this crap?? and on top of that I don't even know what 4/5th's of those ports are even for. and why can't we have statically linked (or what ever its called) so we don't have to install all these f'ing build and run time dependencies and have every thing linked to everything else, hard drive space is not an issue now a days? >-----Original Message----- >From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:freebsd@nbritton.org] >Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 3:17 PM >To: Tom Connolly >Cc: 'Joshua Lokken'; 'Kevin Smith'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: cvsup newbie questions > > >Tom Connolly wrote: > > > >>[snip] >>If you want to install the latest version of gnome, you should cvsup >>the ports tree (ports-all), then cd into the directory for the gnome >>meta-port (it builds gnome and alot of associated apps) and build it, >>like so: >> >># cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 >># make install clean >> >> >> >> >there is also gnome2-lite, gnome2-fifth-toe, gnome2-office, and >gnome2-power-tools > > > >>Make sure you set BATCH=yes or when you get home you will have a very >>annoying configuration menu on your screen asking you what you want to >>install. >> >> >> >> >set BATCH=yes where and what does it do with the optional make options, >esp for meta ports? > > >
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