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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:27:47 -0600
From:      Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports foot-shooting revealed! (learning the hard way ...)
Message-ID:  <20050131232747.GZ9276@seekingfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050201001126.65d19594.antoine.brodin@laposte.net>
References:  <20050131150624.GO9276@seekingfire.com> <20050131134716.D1062@ync.qbhto.arg> <20050131221846.GY9276@seekingfire.com> <20050201001126.65d19594.antoine.brodin@laposte.net>

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On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:11:26AM +0100, Antoine Brodin wrote:
> This is not a bug, there's this advice in the freebsd handbook shipped
> with freebsd 4.8:
> 
>   I really do not want to spend all day staring at the monitor.  Any
>   better ideas?
>   OK, do this before you go to bed/work/the local park:
>   # cd /usr/ports
>   # make -DBATCH install
>   This will install every port that does not require user input.

I strongly suspect that this won't work, conflicting ports will prevent
it from completing. A simple example is the myriad varieties of apache.

-T


-- 
CP/M-86 *screams* on a PII/400.
    -- Dave Brown, a.s.r.
I would think so. The whole floppy image will fit in the L-II cache.
    -- Mark Atwood, in reply



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