which ports require dialog during update
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Oct 22 18:51:06 UTC 2011
On 10/22/2011 01:06, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from kron24 <kron24 at gmail.com>:
>
>> OP may want to look on 'make config-recursive'.
>
> Sometimes, perhaps when selecting options results in subsequent dialogs, 'make config-recursive' doesn't do all the first time, meaning I get subsequent dialogs.
>
> I run 'make config-recursive' repeatedly until it just returns to the command prompt with no more dialogs.
>
> I like to
>
> make package-recursive | & tee build.log
>
> so as to have a record especially if not all goes well; this applies equally for
> 'make install clean'
>
> I like to have all config dialogs done and out of the way.
You might want to consider using portmaster, which handles that (and a
bunch of other stuff) for you.
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