Background port install

[Geraud CONTINSOUZAS]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 19:46, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> On 11/2/2004 10:29 AM Mikhail V.Paremski wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > What the options are there to install/upgrade ports in background? Are 
> > there any possibilities to remove interactive menu at all and set 
> > configurable options in /etc/make.conf or environment variables only?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mikhail. 
> 
> As I understand it, setting BATCH=YES in /etc/make.conf will accept all 
> of the interactive defaults for all ports.  Or you can set options for 
> ports individually in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf if you use 
> portupgrade.  I suspect there's some way to do it individually without 
> portupgrade as well.
> 

Indeed, it's been discussed several times in the list, but you can set
some 'if' conditions in your make.conf regarding which directory you are
when you invoke make.


example shamelessly taken from a post[1] in this list : 
-------------------------------------------------------

.if ${.CURDIR:M*/graphics/gimp*}
WITH_PYTHON=    true
WITHOUT_PRINT=  true
WITH_HTML_HELP_BROWSER=true
.endif

For the install in background, I usually use screen during my monthly
'portupgrade -raf' sessions. my 0.02$.


Cheers,
Geraud


[1] Ulrich Spoerlein on 'configuring ports via Makefile.local' July 2004