Not exactly an answer to your question, but I use the batch flag to bypass configuration menus. If you have one or two ports you do not install with default settings, you can go back and install manually.
On Oct 20, 2011 9:54 PM, "Paul Macdonald" <p...@ifdnrg.com> wrote: Hi, Is there a way to tell which ports might require dialog input during update, i have some auto update scripts which when prompted will run through updates, but occassionally i forget which will require user input and this leads to dialog running ( often @ 100%) until i notice. Obviously i only do this for what i'd consider to be trivial updates and it makes things a lot quicker when you have a lot of boxes to do! I had initialy thought that checking for make targets might be an idea, the lack of a config target for example. On one box which does have a config/options target, i see options come up via dialog. /usr/ports/security/p5-IO-**Socket-SSL brings up the config options for this port, both unchecked [ ] IDN International Domain Names (IDN) support x x [ ] IPV6 IPv6 support on another box there's no dialog from either an update via portupgarde or via a direct make in the port dir ( make config is the same on both and does bring up the dialog) the Makefiles are identical both in the ports dir and in the work dir, both systems are 8.2-REL. Can i programmatically tell if user input is required? thanks Paul. ______________________________**_________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org>" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
