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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.