Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:44:46 -0700 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chris <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: port config questions Message-ID: <200510171544.47113.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <435413F8.4040805@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> References: <435413F8.4040805@childeric.freeserve.co.uk>
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On Monday 17 October 2005 14:13, Chris wrote: > Hi > > Q1 To celebrate upgrading my desktop box to 6.0RC1 I am also upgrading > all my ports with portmanager. Before I ran portmanager I deleted all my > distfiles and ran portupgrade -arRfF to fetch a brand new set (I had far > too many stale ones). I notice that for example all the mplayer skins > distfiles have been downloaded despite /var/db/ports/mplayer/options > saying WITHOUT_SKIN_...=true for most of them. Is there some way to make > portupgrade respect config files in /var/db/ports/? Probably the fault of mplayer port for not respecting its own options. > > Q2 Can I tell portupgrade to go through the configs of all the ports it > is going to upgrade so that I can set them all in one go and then let > portupgrade (or portmanager) get on with things unattended? If not would > this be a useful addition to portupgrade functionality? I would like to > include options that are in Makefiles as well as 'make config' menus. Setting BATCH=YES in /etc/make.conf will prevent those blue screens from popping up. I'm not sure if this is risky or not but BATCH=YES is a permament fixture in my make.conf and haven't noticed any problems yet. > > Thanks > > btw thank you to the author of portmanager, it's wonderful (and I love > the way it works by making excuses not to do things. :-D) > Thanks :) -Mike
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