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Subject: Re: batching port builds
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On Saturday 01 July 2006 00:44, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> 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?
>
> I have: BATCH= yes in my /etc/make.conf file and it works fine. 

It works  better in the envronment, than in /etc/make.conf. Some deinstall 
scripts prompt for input, and pkg_delete doesn't read make.conf.