portmaster unattended run?

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 30 23:59:00 UTC 2011


On 07/30/2011 10:44, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-ports.
> 
>   How could I run `portmaster' without ANY questions and
> confirmations?
>   Simple and obvious `portmaster --no-confirm -y <list of ports>'
> doesn't work. It asks:
> 
>  (1) About interactive ports.

Portmaster is always going to notify you if a port is marked
interactive, this is a feature. Fortunately very few ports are.

>  (2) About removing old distfiles

There is an option in the man page for this.

>  (3) About errors from `tar' when create backup archive with old
>      versions.

There are options for this too. You really need to read the man page.


Doug

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