From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 29 18:42:18 2005 Return-Path: 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 DF01316A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:42:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE0A543D31 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:42:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ph.schulz@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Jan 2005 18:42:16 -0000 Received: from dsl-084-056-228-196.arcor-ip.net (EHLO [192.168.1.5]) (84.56.228.196) by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 29 Jan 2005 19:42:16 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1954550 Message-ID: <41FBD8ED.1070503@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:41:49 +0100 From: Phil Schulz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050123 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gert Cuykens References: <41FBCF95.3020706@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: message for port developers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:42:19 -0000 On 01/29/05 19:27, Gert Cuykens wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:22:18 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > >>On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:17:46 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: >> >>>On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:01:57 +0100, Phil Schulz wrote: >>> >>>>I'm not a port developer but I think you are looking for either `make >>>>configure` or the BATCH variable. >>>> >>>> If you know which ports you want to install on your system, you can do >>>>a `make configure' for each port (where it is availeable) and then have >>>>a skript fire up the `make install's. I'm not sure though if that works >>>>recursively, i.e. you run `make configure' for e.g. the Gnome meta port >>>>and you configure all the dependencies with that one command. Why don't >>>>you try it? ;-) >>>> If you think the default options are ok for you, you can add a line >>>>like "BATCH=yes" in /etc/make.conf and the ports will be built w/o any >>>>user interaction. Very useful for large builds. >>>> >>>>HTH, >>>> >>>>Phil. >>>> >>> >>>BATCH=yes i can not do because some configuration leave some very nice toys out. >>> If you know what specific options you are looking for, you could configure the ports "by hand" and install them later. I think not all ports can be build with BATCH defined, at least that's what ports(7) suggests. >>>Now lets see you can call all dependencies with this if your index is working :) >>> >>>make pretty-print-build-depends-list >>>so with some grep magic you could tell to do make config in all does >>>dependencies. Now the trickie part how do you find out the new >>>dependencies after does configure screens ? >>> >> >>a maybe updating the index and do the same thing all over again until >>there are no new dependencies ? >> > > > can you update the index after a configure that adds a extra > dependencie to the port ? > I don't know. I don't think it would be very efficient in terms of effort vs. use. How many ports do you really want to install with non-default options? And how often do you re-configure them? You probably want to wait for an opinion from someone else who knows more, though. Phil.