On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being > interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports? Idea > is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just before > bedtime. Doing "make config" ahead of time also gives the chance to recover > from a typo at the configuration screen (high risk). > > Best thing I can think of is, using multimedia/ffmpeg as an example, is doing > a dry run > > portupgrade -Rn multimedia/ffmpeg |& tee -a wouldbe.log > > This would show what other packages would need to be portupgraded and avoid > reconfiguring up-to-date dependencies. Then I would go to each of those > directories in the ports tree and run "make config". > > Running "make config-recursive" in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg would produce > configuration screens for all dependencies, including those that are > up-to-date. > > I tried > > portupgrade -RCn multimedia/ffmpeg |& tee -a wouldbe.log > > but then I got all dependency configuration screens, including those that > were up-to-date, and also the interface didn't work right: I got garbage when > trying to respond; it didn't write to the configuration screen but produced > non-color garbage to the background. > > Running "make config-recursive" in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg would > configure all dependencies, including those that are up-to-date and therefore > not in need of portupgrading, though "make config-recursive" seems > appropriate for a first build/install of a port. > > But I think there is no perfect way to be sure of doing all "make config"s in > advance, since selectable options could require additional dependencies. > > If you try to portupgrade perl to 5.12 and everything that depends on it, as > advised in UPDATING file, date 20100715, you will likely get a lot of > configuration dialog screens: I speak from experience, would surely like a > way to do all these "make config"s at the beginning. > > Tom
Well, I'm not using portupgrade, but instead ports-mgmt/portmaster: # portmaster --force-config --no-confirm [...] lang/perl5.12 Gets all of the config menus out of the way (--force-config), and doesn't sit waiting for confirmation to proceed with install (--no-confirm). I do this only the first time I build a port, or if I need to change a config option and reinstall. Works for me! -Brandon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
