Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:44:54 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using Screen Message-ID: <20061130093009.E5F2.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <200611301412.11118.fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> References: <bf79ce230611291727j2535e5brff1e8a76db5f1b3c@mail.gmail.com> <200611301412.11118.fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
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On Thursday November 30, 2006 at 09:12:10 (AM) RW wrote:
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:27, Nadow wrote:
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:22, Dan Sikorsky wrote:
> > > Hey, I have a good question for you guys.
> > >
> > > Lets say, I started a job on a computer, if you must know, portmanager -u
> > > , and then left... but I know its sitting there stuck on a config window
> > > waiting for someone to press enter...
> >
> > Even easier, use portmaster. The first thing that do when installs a
> > port is making recursive all the "make config" windows of the port and
> > dependencies. After you have chosen the options of the last config
> > menu, it will install all the stuff till the end without interruption
> > (except error of course).
>
> Portmanager doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, and it's by far the
> slowest upgrade tool around. People who use it do so because it's the most
> thorough tool around. By contrast portmaster uses a fairly minimalist
> approach.
>
> Portmaster is a clear alternative to portupgrade, it's not really a
> replacement for portmanager.
I think I missed something on this thread, but I am still not clean
about the 'stuck on config window' thing. Personally, I have
preconfigured all of the ports I have installed on my system. Now I just
have:
/etc/make.com
[...]
BATCH=yes
and everything build just fine. Obviously, you can place the 'BATCH'
directive in the environment also. Actually, the only problem I use to
experience was with Apsfiler. I wrote the maintainer and I believe that
they corrected the problem.
Yes, I definitely prefer 'portmanager' over portmaster although that is
a nice light weight program.
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