Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:37:11 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports with GUI configs Message-ID: <4738FFC7.7000309@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20071112235921.11ae8c0a@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <2852884D-270A-4879-B960-C10A602E080E@ashleymoran.me.uk> <47387891.2060007@unsane.co.uk> <47387BCA.6080604@foster.cc> <20071112183502.438b44b8@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4738A71A.6060100@chuckr.org> <4738ACDD.50108@u.washington.edu> <4738ADC8.2060005@gmx.de> <4738AEBF.4010109@u.washington.edu> <4738C145.2050601@chuckr.org> <20071112214240.5d3b048a@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4738CB99.5000807@web.de> <20071112235921.11ae8c0a@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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RW wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:54:33 +0100
> Tino Engel <elrap@web.de> wrote:
>
>> RW schrieb:
>>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:29 -0500
>>> Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I hope not. We really need to move this out of being a ports
>>>> buildtime thing. Currently, to build ports in batch either
>>>> requires someone to be chained to the computer, so as to intercept
>>>> all those screens, or to simply agree to install everything, with
>>>> no inpput whatever.
>>>>
>>> That's not correct, you can run make config-conditional or make
>>> config-recursive anytime you like.
>>>
>>>
>> But not on a portupgrade... I don't want to run config-recursive on
>> the whole ports tree though....
>
> It's not hard to script it though, something like the following would do
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for p in `pkg_version -ol'<' |awk '{ print $1 }'`; do
> cd /usr/ports/${p} && make config-recursive
> done
I can't believe you actually suggested this. First thing, it would take
you HOURS to complete, and you better not make even one mistake, 'cause
you couldn't even go back far enough to figure out what the name was of
the port you muffed. Beyond that, since most ports ask questions formed
with the name of the target dependency, aznd not asking things like "do
you want such-and-such capability", so you have to be conversant with
the names and capabilities of nearly 10,000 ports, to be able to do that
job.
Were you really seriously suggesting this. It's so unworkable, its
laughable.
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