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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:50:30 -0500
From:      Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org, Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap
Message-ID:  <5037A2C6.4060200@shatow.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120824143119.GA37867@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <97612B57-1255-4BB3-A6D3-FC74324C6D67@FreeBSD.org> <20120824081543.GB2998@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <50377253.103@FreeBSD.org> <20120824143119.GA37867@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>

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On 8/24/2012 9:31 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:23:47PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote:
>> Baptiste Daroussin ha scritto:
>>
>>> On of the thing I forgot and kan@ has added is a prompt for the user in case it
>>> is going to bootstrap.
>>
>> So, removing the prompt will make everybody happy? :-)
>>
>> What about a prompt with timeout? "This is the first time pkg is run,
>> I'll start bootstrapping in 10 seconds. Press CTRL-C now to abort"
>>
> 
> Imho the best is to prompt only if not on a tty, otherwise fail, except if a
> environment variable is set.
> 
> regards,
> Bapt
> 

Maybe an ENV variable to auto confirm the prompt too? I'm thinking about
scripts using pkg to bootstrap an entire system install. Maybe I'm on a
TTY and just want it to confirm auto anyway.

Bryan



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