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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:42:39 -0400
From:      "Steve Friedrich" <freeBSD@InsightBB.com>
To:        "Chris" <racerx@makeworld.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Whay does
Message-ID:  <20060426184236.DED1843D55@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <W7539014565263471146075448@webmail2>

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On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:17:28 +0000, Chris wrote:


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Steve Friedrich [mailto:freeBSD@InsightBB.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 01:02 PM
>>To: 'FreeBSD Questions'
>>Subject: Whay does "port is interactive" mean?
>>
>>I couldn't portupgrade acroread7 because it is marked "interactive".  
>>
>>What does that mean?  How do I upgrade it?

>Inactive - its not being maintaned would come to mind. Feel free to pick it up I suppose.



You misread it Chris.  I said interactive.

I continued to search the archives and found out that BATCH=yes in /etc/make.conf interferes with ports marked interactive.  I commented it out and acroread7 built/installed fine.

Thanks for your help.






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