Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:12:11 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens? Message-ID: <4CA8731B.1040909@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <20101003070921.6159f9ea@scorpio> References: <4ca853f7.u8GtTT6YlSKwZwFM%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <20101003070921.6159f9ea@scorpio>
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On 10/03/10 12:09, Jerry wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:59:19 +0000
> Thomas Mueller<mueller6727@bellsouth.net> articulated:
>
>> > From "Elias Chrysocheris"<eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr>:
>>
>>> If you are sure that the default configuration settings are OK for
>>> you, then one way is to perform a portupgrade with the switches
>>> --batch --yes, like portupgrade --batch --yes -a
>>
>>> This will assume that the default settings are those you like and
>>> will not ask you anything about configuration screens e.t.c.
>>
>>> Elias
>>
>> Idea is that I might want to configure some of the options, so I
>> can't use --batch=YES unless I configure all options beforehand,
>> meaning I have to find what ports are to be upgraded and which of
>> those have user-selectable options.
>>
>> Are there any adverse side effects if I use portupgrade some of the
>> time, and postmaster other times?
>>
>> Reason for wanting to do all "make config"s beforehand is not only
>> efficiency and ability to run unattended, but the ability to recover
>> from a typo at the config dialog interface, which can be confusing,
>> on when to press spacebar, tab, enter, up- and down-arrows.
>>
>> Now I see in UPDATING file, date 20100915, that lang/perl5.12 has
>> been updated to 5.12.2.
>>
>> 20100915:
>> AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.12
>> AUTHOR: skv@FreeBSD.org
>>
>> lang/perl5.12 has been updated to 5.12.2. You should update
>> everything that depends on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use
>> "perl-after-upgrade" script supplied with lang/perl5.12.
>> Please see its manual page for details.
>>
>> If you want to switch to lang/perl5.12 from lang/perl5.{8,10} please
>> follow instructions in the entry 20100715 in this file.
>>
>>
>> I only saw this via FreeBSD web site Oct 3 (20101003), after my
>> original inquiry. Does this mean I have to go through all the
>> troubles again?
>>
>> I already successfully portupgraded Perl to 5.12.2. But I guess I
>> need to read "perl-after-upgrade" script before doing anything
>> (including panicking?).
>
> If you were to use 'portmanager' with its '-p' option, it would rebuild
> all ports that depend on the new version of Perl as well as any ports
> that depended on those ports as well. It would insure that the
> dependency links were fully updated. There is then no need to run the
> superfluous "perl-after-upgrade' script; although, you are free to do
> so if you so desire.
>
I use portmanager -s to get a list of ports to be upgraded which I then
feed into a foreach (csh) or for (sh) loop which runs "make config" in
each port directory. It's quick and easy and I can then run portmanager
with no further intervention and I have all the configs as I want them.
chris
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