From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 26 21:03:46 2009 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 980FF106568D for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:03:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B89D8FC08 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA17.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.73]) by QMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9wvj1d0041afHeLA1x2xkQ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:02:57 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by OMTA17.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9x3l1d0051f6R9u8dx3l3s; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:03:46 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:03:43 -0800 Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:03:43 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091126210343.GD79446@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20091124154514.GA91657@potato> <200911241725.42229.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20091124163718.GB91657@potato> <4B0C1249.1090600@lazlarlyricon.com> <20091124174025.GC91657@potato> <20091124210948.GC87829@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091124211851.GA79446@comcast.net> <4B0C5048.6090402@lazlarlyricon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B0C5048.6090402@lazlarlyricon.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R 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: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:03:46 -0000 On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:29:44 PST Rolf G Nielsen wrote: >Charlie Kester wrote: >>Can someone remind me once again, when rebuilding all of my ports, >>what is the trick for avoiding the options dialogs? I'd like to have >>this run largely unattended. I seem to recall someone describing a >>method to go through all of them upfront, rather than having the build >>process interrupted each time a port wants that input. >> >>I know that portupgrade has a batch build option, but unless I'm >>mistaken, that skips any ports that need interaction to build. >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > >With portupgrade give -C to run make "make config" or -c to run "make >config-conditional" for all tasks before everything else. > >To skip the config dialogs altogether, specify -DBATCH on the make >commandline (-m "-DBATCH" or -M "-DBATCH" to portupgrade to append or >prepend the -DBATCH to the make commandline). Thanks for your replies! To do the complete reinstall of my ports after upgrading to 8.0, I've elected to use the method documented on the manpage for portmaster.