i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster

Sandra Kachelmann s.kachelmann at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 6 13:59:17 UTC 2010


On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you absolutely do not want to see the OPTIONS screens, no matter
>> what, then add -G (see man page for details).
>
> No, that's not what -G does.  -G makes portmaster handle the options screen
> similar to portupgrade eg waiting to ask you until it runs into it.
>
> Setting BATCH=yes in make.conf does work, maybe BATCH?=yes breaks it, my
> make.conf fu is only sightly better than it documentation which isn't much.
>
> --
> Adam Vande More

OK, that does work:

Setting BATCH=yes in /etc/make.conf and running:

$ portmaster --no-confirm -G /usr/ports/x11/xorg

But is there really no way to specify it as argument of portmaster?

Sandra


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