2010/8/6 Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelm...@googlemail.com>: > I've been using ports-mgmt/portupgrade pretty much ever since it > started to exist. Unfortunately portupgrade seems to be pretty much > "abandonware" so I've been told to move on to portmaster. Despite the > very long manpage I can't seem to be able to achieve the following > thing with portmaster: > > $ portupgrade --batch -a > > If I issue this command I know exactly that I can go out, have a > drink, cook some dinner and unlock my workstation the next day and > find that everything completed unless a port failed to build. With > portmaster I get asked a s*t load of interactive questions, whether I > want to delete some package, whether it's really okay to pull in all > the dependencies and so on. > > Can someone spoonfeed me the command I need to issue with portmaster > in order to achieve the same thing as with > > $ portupgrade --batch -a
I'm quite late, and won't speak for "batch", but here is what I use with portmaster. I switched recently from portupgrade to portmaster and I'm happy with the following command. I was used to "portupgrade -a" and was disappointed with "portmaster -a" the first days. # portmaster -adw -x openoffice -a is just like in portupgrade, -d cleans old distfiles without confirmation, -w copies old libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ like portupgrade does, I find this very useful to not break the system. That's less likely to happen with the recent approach of bumping revisions of all dependant ports, but it's safer and I often clean this directory. -x to exclude some ports you don't want to upgrade This is very convenient because, unlike with "portupgrade -a", all the config dialogs appear at the beginning (so I don't have to use a batch mode, and never see my upgrade paused on a blue screen after having left the computer for the night), and portmaster prompts you with a list of the actions that will be taken before doing anything. I now know what will be installed in addition of my already present ports. There's also a very practical feature to delete build-deps, but I don't use it because I already have a script which deletes everything but what I explicitely want to keep. Thanks Doug ! Cheers > > Is that even possible? > > $ portupgrade --batch -a > > Thanks in advance! > > Sandra > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: oliv...@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas." _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
