Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:03:06 -0500 From: "Ashok Shrestha" <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Ports" <ports@freebsd.org>, ashok.shrestha@gmail.com Subject: portinstall question Message-ID: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, I'm installing kde on freebsd 6.0. portinstall -rRP x11/kde3 It's been compiling for the past 2 days. (AMD XP 1900) 1) The problem is that once in a while it'll come across a port that requires user input. So I always OK the default configurations at the blue screen. Is there a way to get portinstall to accept the default configurations without user intervention? I tried '--yes' option but that didn't work. 2) I expected the '-P' option to download the majority of the dependencies as binary packages. But that doesn't seem to be the case; it seems like everything is being compiled. Unless I unintentionally specified '-p' (lowercase), shouldn't there be more binary downloads and faster installs? 3) Is there a way to check or determine the progress of the install? For instance, a way to determine all the dependencies (and file sizes) and see how many have installed so far? I know you can do 'portinstall -n kde3'; but I'm afraid to do it while the current portinstall is running. -- Ashok Shrestha
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