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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:31:40 -0500
From:      David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
Subject:   Re: batching port builds
Message-ID:  <200606301431.40968.daeg@houston.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060630182544.GG2111@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
References:  <20060630161046.GE2111@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <200606301131.29593.daeg@houston.rr.com> <20060630182544.GG2111@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>

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On Friday 30 June 2006 13:25, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 30/06/06 David J Brooks said:
> > If you  do 'make -DBATCH' instead of 'make' -  you will use the preset
> > defaults for each port with options. Or you can do
> > 'make config-recursive' - which will offer you all the option screens for
> > the port in whose directory you're currently in and all its dependencies.
> >
> > See 'man ports' for more information.
> >
> > To use those with 'portupgrade -a' will probably take some custom
> > scripting.
>
> Ah, so there's no make.conf option for this?

If there is, I'm unaware of it. Then again, I rarely use 'portupgrade -a' 
myself. I start with 'portversion -v -l "<"' and work my way down the list 
interactively. It's more time consuming, but I tend to learn things along the 
way. :)

David
-- 
Sure God created the world in only six days,
but He didn't have an established user-base.



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