From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 00:55:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB58A1065670 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:55:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71ABD16068F; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EA4B792.2000906@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:55:46 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Mueller References: <20111022080608.C0136106566B@hub.freebsd.org> <4EA3109A.4050402@FreeBSD.org> <20111023100740.CAA8D1065670@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20111023100740.CAA8D1065670@hub.freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: which ports require dialog during update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:55:46 -0000 On 10/23/2011 02:48, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Doug Barton : > >> I like to have all config dialogs done and out of the way. > >> You might want to consider using portmaster, which handles that >> (and a bunch of other stuff) for you. > > I think portmaster has an equivalent for 'portupgrade -R' to > portupgrade dependencies? > > I think one would use 'portupgrade -r' less frequently. I've never used portupgrade, so I don't know the answer to those questions, sorry. The portmaster man page should be helpful. > I like to save a build log, would the config-recursive part be > disrupted or disruptive? I don't understand that question either. :) portmaster has an option to log build/install, and it's completely separate from the process of showing the user the config dialogs. The configuration option to save those logs is in the portmaster man page. > NetBSD pkgsrc, which has been ported to other mostly (quasi-)Unix > OSes as well, has a better way: putting options in /etc/mk.conf : not > to say NetBSD pkgsrc is better than FreeBSD ports system, just that > they have a good idea in this aspect. You might want to look at ports-mgmt/portconf. In many ways the OPTIONS dialog is superior to having to write out options in config files. OTOH, a needed improvement to it is that the defaults should take the settings that are already in the environment into account. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/