From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 22:43:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F30716A41F for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:43:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from qproxy.gmail.com (qproxy.gmail.com [72.14.204.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4A243D53 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:43:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a39so893081qbd for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:43:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=ZdvAtJ32FJKLGWioXWO2UdgVN8dadVzvOatf+Vq9caNXZ5o1CPlFl3XpfleUDYPjTWI7KWHsCvLBq/P3Xd4v2iLcBgo0YsVrFac3iQgzC+WlG6W18s4+U4GMmdODJVOk5uY9cV7bjw7bzvrj5qkIVkBhneJ7Zkwhorne7mwUbvY= Received: by 10.65.81.2 with SMTP id i2mr2442803qbl; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e14sm2081609qbe.2005.10.17.15.43.17; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:43:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chris Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:44:46 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <435413F8.4040805@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <435413F8.4040805@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510171544.47113.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: port config questions 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, 17 Oct 2005 22:43:19 -0000 On Monday 17 October 2005 14:13, Chris wrote: > Hi > > Q1 To celebrate upgrading my desktop box to 6.0RC1 I am also upgrading > all my ports with portmanager. Before I ran portmanager I deleted all my > distfiles and ran portupgrade -arRfF to fetch a brand new set (I had far > too many stale ones). I notice that for example all the mplayer skins > distfiles have been downloaded despite /var/db/ports/mplayer/options > saying WITHOUT_SKIN_...=true for most of them. Is there some way to make > portupgrade respect config files in /var/db/ports/? Probably the fault of mplayer port for not respecting its own options. > > Q2 Can I tell portupgrade to go through the configs of all the ports it > is going to upgrade so that I can set them all in one go and then let > portupgrade (or portmanager) get on with things unattended? If not would > this be a useful addition to portupgrade functionality? I would like to > include options that are in Makefiles as well as 'make config' menus. Setting BATCH=YES in /etc/make.conf will prevent those blue screens from popping up. I'm not sure if this is risky or not but BATCH=YES is a permament fixture in my make.conf and haven't noticed any problems yet. > > Thanks > > btw thank you to the author of portmanager, it's wonderful (and I love > the way it works by making excuses not to do things. :-D) > Thanks :) -Mike