Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:51:55 -0400 From: John Remmers <remmers@jremmers.org> To: Vasile Cristescu <vasile@cristescu.org> Cc: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade 7 -> 7.2 Message-ID: <B2FBFD31-2448-4E4B-B273-0E0EEBA0B0A6@jremmers.org> In-Reply-To: <200905251533.44461.vasile@cristescu.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905251414280.18713@macos.cmi.ua.ac.be> <200905251533.44461.vasile@cristescu.org>
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On May 25, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Vasile Cristescu wrote: > > On Monday 25 May 2009 15:30:27 Pieter Donche wrote: >> I have to upgrade a few FreeBSD7 machines to FreeBSD7.2 >> (this is new to me) >> One machine has very few third party ports installed (33), the other >> over 600 ... One of the steps is # portupgade -af, to rebuild all >> third >> party software.. this took 27 minutes on the 33 packages machine.. >> So for 20 times more packages: 10 hours ??? > > depending on the packages, > >> Is this normal? >> Also, one I had one screen asking for options for libiconv 1.11_1 >> where I had to tab to OK and press enter. >> What is the 600 packages system has 20 of more of such screens, >> waiting for user input. Can't one make ik automatically accept the >> defaults? > > echo 'BATCH=YES' > /etc/make.conf Better make that: echo 'BATCH=YES' >> /etc/make.conf -John R.
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