Ashley Moran wrote: > Hi > > I was just wondering, what is the motivation behind the GUI > configuration for some ports? Simply put, they drive me up the wall. > I've lost count of the number of times I've come back to a big install > to find it hanging on a config screen. Possibly I'm missing something. > > The apache22 port is the latest one to join this crowd, although there > is an option to skip the GUI. I'm much happier using WITH_PROXY_MODULES > or whatever, and managing everything in pkgtools.conf. > > What is the best way to pre-configure GUI-configured ports? For > example, if I want to script an installation of several ports. > > I've seen this: <http://www.freshports.org/misc/dotfile/>, is it what > I'm after? >
I think what you want is the make config-recursive target which should go through the dependencies and do the gui config for them all, (after the first run the gui config saves the configs in /var/db/ports/$portname/options and shouldn't prompt a second time.) For apache22 it looks like setting WITHOUT_APACHE_OPTIONS=YES should disable the menu and let you go back to using pkgtools.conf although I haven't tested it. Its possible that setting BATCH=YES and using pkgtools.conf will work too but my understanding of the BATCH and INTERACTIVE makefile options are a little unclear. I agree though, I often suffer the same problem, coming back after a few hours to a build that should have finished to find its sitting on the first dependency. Vince > Thanks for any advice > Ashley > > > -- > > blog @ http://aviewfromafar.net/ > linked-in @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran > currently @ work > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
