portupgrade++

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> [030422 10:32] wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:13:03AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > Just wanted to say thanks for one of the coolest programs ever. I
> > just wish there was a way to get it to skip (use the default) the
> > configuration screen for samba and ghostscript and whatnot.
> 
> bsd.port.mk tests the BATCH variable to skip interactive ports.  See
> the comments in that file.

Wouldn't it make sense for it to set that when run with -a?  Unless
some other "do interactive" flag was set?  It would be cool if there
was a way for ports to remeber/inherit previous configs done when 
installed or upgraded and just use those.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred at freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'