Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:00:46 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portinstall question Message-ID: <442A5ACE.1050504@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com> References: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com>
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Ashok Shrestha wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm installing kde on freebsd 6.0. > > portinstall -rRP x11/kde3 > > > It's been compiling for the past 2 days. (AMD XP 1900) > > 1) > The problem is that once in a while it'll come across a port that > requires user input. So I always OK the default configurations at the > blue screen. Is there a way to get portinstall to accept the default > configurations without user intervention? I tried '--yes' option but > that didn't work. > > 2) > I expected the '-P' option to download the majority of the > dependencies as binary packages. But that doesn't seem to be the case; > it seems like everything is being compiled. Unless I unintentionally > specified '-p' (lowercase), shouldn't there be more binary downloads > and faster installs? > > 3) > Is there a way to check or determine the progress of the install? For > instance, a way to determine all the dependencies (and file sizes) and > see how many have installed so far? I know you can do 'portinstall -n > kde3'; but I'm afraid to do it while the current portinstall is > running. > Read the portupgrade manpage with more care. All your problems are addressed there.
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