From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 17:48:20 2007 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 56F4B16A418 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:48:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2442E13C448 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:48:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B771CDFC for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:48:18 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: FreeBSD Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:48:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20071010172524.GA56666@remdog.net> In-Reply-To: <20071010172524.GA56666@remdog.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710101948.16002.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: Portupgrade prompts 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: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:48:20 -0000 On Wednesday 10 October 2007 19:25:24 Rem P Roberti wrote: > This has no doubt been covered before, but for some reason I am unable > to get to the archives. Anyway, is there a way to accept the default > prompts that occasionally occur while doing a ports upgrade? If I've been > a way for a while and there are numerous ports that need upgrading there > might be any number of prompts that occur during the upgrade process, and > it would be nice to be able to have some way of accepting the defaults so > that the process can carry on. Its the pits starting the process and then > going to bed only to find in the morning that the upgrade process hung up > waiting for a prompt that occurred right after you left the room. TIA. echo BATCH=yes >>/etc/make.conf However, it's probably better to do `make config-recursive' for each port that needs upgrading before starting the upgrade as it gives unexpected results if you've configured non-default values in a previous version. -- Mel