From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 21 09:21:08 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 8DEC4106566B for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:21:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A95D8FC08 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so5358324wwi.31 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:21:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.24.144 with SMTP id v16mr3175629wbb.7.1319188867029; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:21:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ek13sm20605941wbb.3.2011.10.21.02.21.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EA13980.4090505@my.gd> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:21:04 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4EA12507.7090703@ifdnrg.com> <4EA125D1.1020204@my.gd> <4EA13806.5000803@ifdnrg.com> In-Reply-To: <4EA13806.5000803@ifdnrg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 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 09:21:08 -0000 On 10/21/11 11:14 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: >>Hi, Is there a way to tell which ports might require dialog input > during update, i have some auto update scripts >> Stop doing this. >> >> Your update scripts do not read /usr/ports/UPDATING. >> Your update scripts do not read package changelogs. >> >> What you're doing is irresponsible, and potentially dangerous/harmful if >> your server is in production. >> >> You should really be very careful about this. > i do of course read those files (which require daily checking to confirm > usually no relevant changes, but thats another issue!).. > > however i don't need to read UPDATING on every box, (this tool is an > assistent, not a replacement, for monitored updates.) > > i do need to check that an update that went fine on the initial test box > will behave the same on other boxes, which is my question, > > can i tell if the options dialog is going to be invoked? > > thanks > Paul. I'm afraid I can't see an option in portmanager that would handle this. I think you portupgrade's --batch mode might be the answer to your question though.