From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 18:53:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36AF16A418 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:53:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za) Received: from hermes.hst.org.za (onix.hst.org.za [209.203.2.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B1613C494 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:53:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za) Received: from [10.1.11.1] ([10.1.11.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by hermes.hst.org.za (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lACIoofh057029 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:50:51 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za) From: Jonathan McKeown To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:55:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <2852884D-270A-4879-B960-C10A602E080E@ashleymoran.me.uk> <20071112154817.GA15979@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20071112154817.GA15979@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Organization: Health Systems Trust X-Face: $@VrUx^RHy/}yu]jKf/<4T%/d|F+$j-Ol2"2J$q+%OK1]&/G_S9(=?utf-8?q?HkaQ*=60!=3FYOK=3FY!=27M=60C=0A=09aP=5C9nVPF8Q=7DCilHH8l=3B=7E!4?= =?utf-8?q?2HK6=273lg4J=7Daz?=@1Dqqh:J]M^"YPn*2IWrZON$1+G?oX3@ =?utf-8?q?k=230=0A=0954XDRg=3DYn=5FF-etwot4U=24b?=dTS{i X-Spam-Score: -4.302 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.61 on 209.203.2.133 Subject: Re: Ports with GUI configs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:53:13 -0000 On Monday 12 November 2007 17:48, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:26:00PM +0000, Ashley Moran wrote: >> I've lost count of the number of times I've come back to a big >> install to find it hanging on a config screen. Possibly I'm missing >> something. [snip] >> What is the best way to pre-configure GUI-configured ports? For example, >> if I want to script an installation of several ports. > > 'make config-recursive' to pop up all the config-dialogs before you > start building[...] I discovered this recently. My big irritation, having decent bandwidth at work and a dialup at home, was fetching ``all'' the required sources for an overnight build on my laptop, finding in the morning that a dialog had popped up during the night and stopped the build, selecting a non-standard option and restarting only to find that it brought in a bunch more dependencies - over my phone line. I now run make config-recursive repeatedly until dialogs stop appearing, then fetch, then build. This recently cut down a build of X.org and KDE from a week (wall time) to less than 24 hours - from memory I ran make config-recursive three or four times on x11/kde3 alone. (Oh, I also got ADSL which helped with the downloads). Jonathan