portupgrade question

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 18:59:13 PDT 2009


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM, new_guy <byte8bits at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Silly question... when I use portupgrade on gnome installs, it interrupts
> itself a lot to prompt for config options. I normally take all the defaults.
> Is there a way to use portupgrade without all the stopping for config
> questions? I'd like to leave my laptop alone over-night doing a portupgrade
> of gnome... etc without baby-sitting it. If something does happen to get
> built without a setting I want, I can always redo it later, but for 95% of
> all the builds, I take the defaults and would rather not be prompted on
> those.
>

You could add:

   BATCH=yes

to /etc/make.conf.

-- 
Glen Barber


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