Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:11:46 +0000 From: Iain Dooley <mail@iaindooley.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uprading to 5.X from 4.X Message-ID: <426D8742.7040104@iaindooley.com> In-Reply-To: <20050425120227.BBED416A4D1@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20050425120227.BBED416A4D1@hub.freebsd.org>
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>> maybe i'll hold off for a little while. it's such a pain having to wait for >> everything to build from source. kde takes forever, so you leave the house >> but when you come back there is one of those configuration options screens >> for some obscure package with bunch of options like "Enable Lib GSSD >> Compatibility" that mean absolutely nothing to me. meanwhile i can't use my >> PC. > You can usually avoid that with make -DBATCH=yes. With portupgrade it > would be portupgrade -m -DBATCH=yes. > Usually, that will, if there are options, choose the defaults, which are > reasonable. You can put BATCH=yes in /etc/make.conf (see > /etc/defaults/make.conf) but of course, what happens then is that you > install something where you ~really~ didn't want the defaults. :) okay that's great advice, thanks. iain
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