From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 21 07:53:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB99106564A for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:53:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from ifdnrg30.ifdnrg.com (outbound.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 329528FC17 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:53:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.75] (188-221-77-161.zone12.bethere.co.uk [188.221.77.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by ifdnrg30.ifdnrg.com (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9L7rh9v071937 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:53:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Message-ID: <4EA12507.7090703@ifdnrg.com> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:53:43 +0100 From: Paul Macdonald User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: which ports require dialog during update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:53:46 -0000 Hi, Is there a way to tell which ports might require dialog input during update, i have some auto update scripts which when prompted will run through updates, but occassionally i forget which will require user input and this leads to dialog running ( often @ 100%) until i notice. Obviously i only do this for what i'd consider to be trivial updates and it makes things a lot quicker when you have a lot of boxes to do! I had initialy thought that checking for make targets might be an idea, the lack of a config target for example. On one box which does have a config/options target, i see options come up via dialog. /usr/ports/security/p5-IO-Socket-SSL brings up the config options for this port, both unchecked [ ] IDN International Domain Names (IDN) support x x [ ] IPV6 IPv6 support on another box there's no dialog from either an update via portupgarde or via a direct make in the port dir ( make config is the same on both and does bring up the dialog) the Makefiles are identical both in the ports dir and in the work dir, both systems are 8.2-REL. Can i programmatically tell if user input is required? thanks Paul.