From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 04:54:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C446416A400 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:54:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2DA43D45 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from cpe-24-167-65-111.houston.res.rr.com (cpe-24-167-65-111.houston.res.rr.com [24.167.65.111]) by ms-smtp-03.texas.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2U4suPK017007 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:54:58 -0600 (CST) From: David J Brooks Organization: KC5WNK To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:54:39 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(=?utf-8?q?gxJxxc=0A=09R=09nSNPNr*/=5E=7EStawWU9KDJ-CT0k=24f=23?=@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603292254.41986.daeg@houston.rr.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: portinstall question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:54:59 -0000 On Wednesday 29 March 2006 01:03, Ashok Shrestha wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm installing kde on freebsd 6.0. > > portinstall -rRP x11/kde3 > > > It's been compiling for the past 2 days. (AMD XP 1900) I feel your pain. Think of it as a good warm-up sprint for KDE4 ;) > 1) > The problem is that once in a while it'll come across a port that > requires user input. So I always OK the default configurations at the > blue screen. Is there a way to get portinstall to accept the default > configurations without user intervention? I tried '--yes' option but > that didn't work. you can do 'make config-recursive' in /usr/ports/x11/kde3. That will let you set the configurations on all of the dependencies at one shot. > 2) > I expected the '-P' option to download the majority of the > dependencies as binary packages. But that doesn't seem to be the case; > it seems like everything is being compiled. Unless I unintentionally > specified '-p' (lowercase), shouldn't there be more binary downloads > and faster installs? I don't think there are yet any binary packages for the latest port of kde. > 3) > Is there a way to check or determine the progress of the install? For > instance, a way to determine all the dependencies (and file sizes) and > see how many have installed so far? I know you can do 'portinstall -n > kde3'; but I'm afraid to do it while the current portinstall is > running. I'm sure there must be a better way, but 'ps' will show you what's currently being compiled, or 'portversion -l "kde"' will show you which parts have been completed. > > -- > Ashok Shrestha HTH, David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base.