Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:54:39 -0600 From: David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portinstall question Message-ID: <200603292254.41986.daeg@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com> References: <79e2026f0603282303y7dea2312ne6baa505aadc27d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 29 March 2006 01:03, Ashok Shrestha wrote: > 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) I feel your pain. Think of it as a good warm-up sprint for KDE4 ;) > 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. you can do 'make config-recursive' in /usr/ports/x11/kde3. That will let you set the configurations on all of the dependencies at one shot. > 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? I don't think there are yet any binary packages for the latest port of kde. > 3) > Is there a way to check or determine the progress of the install? For > instance, a way to determine all the dependencies (and file sizes) and > see how many have installed so far? I know you can do 'portinstall -n > kde3'; but I'm afraid to do it while the current portinstall is > running. I'm sure there must be a better way, but 'ps' will show you what's currently being compiled, or 'portversion -l "kde"' will show you which parts have been completed. > > -- > Ashok Shrestha HTH, David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base.
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