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Date:      Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:30:55 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Convert all packages to ports
Message-ID:  <4C2D252F.4040802@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <516330.44429.qm@web52908.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References:  <516330.44429.qm@web52908.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

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On 7/1/10 7:27 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> --- On Thu, 7/1/10, Chris Stankevitz<chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> Q: Is there a simple way to replace each "package" with the
>> locally compiled "port"?
>
> portmaster -f -a
>
>> Ideally the procedure will not ask me any questions
>
> Be prepared to answer hundreds of "options" questions.  To take the default option you must press "TAB, ENTER" to each query.  Have fun!
>
> Chris
>
> TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER, TAB, ENTER
>

You can add BATCH=yes in /etc/make.conf, though I don't recall off hand 
if portmaster looks there - I suspect it does.

"Ideally" sounds like an "option" to me.  [tab][enter]

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber



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