Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:58:14 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portinstall question Message-ID: <20060329205814.GB42066@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com> References: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com>
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# ashok.shrestha@gmail.com / 2006-03-29 02:03:06 -0500:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm installing kde on freebsd 6.0.
>
> portinstall -rRP x11/kde3
>
>
> It's been compiling for the past 2 days. (AMD XP 1900)
>
> 1)
> The problem is that once in a while it'll come across a port that
> requires user input. So I always OK the default configurations at the
> blue screen. Is there a way to get portinstall to accept the default
> configurations without user intervention? I tried '--yes' option but
> that didn't work.
that's BATCH=whatever in the environment or /etc/make.conf
> 2)
> I expected the '-P' option to download the majority of the
> dependencies as binary packages. But that doesn't seem to be the case;
> it seems like everything is being compiled. Unless I unintentionally
> specified '-p' (lowercase), shouldn't there be more binary downloads
> and faster installs?
-P means /try/ a package. You have most probably updated your
/usr/ports tree since 6.0, and whereas pkg_add uses the symlink
web on the ftp server to find the right package for your release
based on the package basename you give it, portupgrade -P will try
to fetch <package>-<version> from the server, using your current
/usr/ports to arrive at both values.
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