portupgrade dialogs...

[Daniel Bye]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Christian Tischler wrote:
> Hi,
> when I run portupgrade to get my server up to date (CVS of 
> 4.9-Release),  everything works fine and smooth, until any of the ports 
> pops up an dialog and asks me what I want to compile in (e.g. cups 
> asking me about what drivers I want to install and so on).
> 
> Now my question: Is there a way to work arround this? As my server does 
> not have a very decent CPU updating takes quite some time, and I do not 
> sit in front of my terminal all the time :-) and due to the dialogs 
> waiting for my input the update is running for three days by now...
> 
> So any suggestions?

In addition to what Stijn and Kent have already said, you can override
the defaults by setting an appropriate value in MAKE_ARGS in
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.  For example, I have this set for Samba:

MAKE_ARGS = {
    'net/samba*' => [
        'BATCH=yes',
        'WITH_UTMP=yes',
        'WITH_SYSLOG=yes',
        'WITHOUT_CUPS=yes',
        'WITH_RECYCLE=yes',
      ],
}

At each subsequent upgrade, the configured set of options will be passed
to the ports system.

I find this aspect of portupgrade very useful.

HTH

Dan

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