[ John Levine wrote on Mon 8.Oct'12 at 2:42:33 -0000 ] > > ... Note that setting the BATCH environment variable to yes will answer > > yes to any prompts during this process, removing the need for manual > > intervention during the build process. > > > >(This was said with respect to upgrading ports via portupgrade.) > > Or you can use portmaster, which runs through all the ports first and > does the config dialogs before starting the rebuild. There are stil > a few places it can get stuck, but many fewer than portupgrade. > > Portmaster is worth a look just out of amazement. It is a 4,000 line > shell script.
Yes, I use this myself and it is very good. I used to use portupgrade but changed when I started using 9.x, i'm not sure why. But to learn it's 4000 line shell is quite amazing. Its author must have some excellent shell wizardry skills! :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
