upgrade 7 -> 7.2

[Vasile Cristescu]

On Monday 25 May 2009 15:30:27 Pieter Donche wrote:
> I have to upgrade a few FreeBSD7 machines to FreeBSD7.2
> (this is new to me)
> One machine has very few third party ports installed (33), the other
> over 600 ... One of the steps is # portupgade -af, to rebuild all third
> party software..  this took 27 minutes on the 33 packages machine..
> So for 20 times more packages:  10 hours ???

 depending on the packages,

> Is this normal?
> Also, one I had one screen  asking for options for libiconv 1.11_1
> where I had to tab to OK and press enter.
> What is the 600 packages system has 20 of more of such screens,
> waiting for user input. Can't one make ik automatically accept the
> defaults?

echo 'BATCH=YES' > /etc/make.conf

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