Chuck Robey wrote: > RW wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:54:33 +0100 >> Tino Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> RW schrieb: >>>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:29 -0500 >>>> Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I hope not. We really need to move this out of being a ports >>>>> buildtime thing. Currently, to build ports in batch either >>>>> requires someone to be chained to the computer, so as to intercept >>>>> all those screens, or to simply agree to install everything, with >>>>> no inpput whatever. >>>> That's not correct, you can run make config-conditional or make >>>> config-recursive anytime you like. >>>> >>>> >>> But not on a portupgrade... I don't want to run config-recursive on >>> the whole ports tree though.... >> >> It's not hard to script it though, something like the following would do >> >> #!/bin/sh >> for p in `pkg_version -ol'<' |awk '{ print $1 }'`; do >> cd /usr/ports/${p} && make config-recursive done > > I can't believe you actually suggested this. First thing, it would take > you HOURS to complete, and you better not make even one mistake, 'cause > you couldn't even go back far enough to figure out what the name was of > the port you muffed. Beyond that, since most ports ask questions formed > with the name of the target dependency, aznd not asking things like "do > you want such-and-such capability", so you have to be conversant with > the names and capabilities of nearly 10,000 ports, to be able to do that > job.
It will only operate on 10000 ports if you have 10000 ports installed and a majority of them is outdated. I'm of the impression that you don't really know what the commands do you're shown here and come to ridiculous conclusions because of this. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"