From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 22 18:51:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89708106564A for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6603514D82C; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:51:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EA3109A.4050402@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:51:06 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Mueller References: <4EA12507.7090703@ifdnrg.com> <4EA125D1.1020204@my.gd> <4EA13806.5000803@ifdnrg.com> <4EA13980.4090505@my.gd> <4EA151B4.8060102@gmail.com> <20111022080608.C0136106566B@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20111022080608.C0136106566B@hub.freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which ports require dialog during update X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:51:06 -0000 On 10/22/2011 01:06, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from kron24 : > >> OP may want to look on 'make config-recursive'. > > Sometimes, perhaps when selecting options results in subsequent dialogs, 'make config-recursive' doesn't do all the first time, meaning I get subsequent dialogs. > > I run 'make config-recursive' repeatedly until it just returns to the command prompt with no more dialogs. > > I like to > > make package-recursive | & tee build.log > > so as to have a record especially if not all goes well; this applies equally for > 'make install clean' > > I like to have all config dialogs done and out of the way. You might want to consider using portmaster, which handles that (and a bunch of other stuff) for you. -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/