STDIN of dialog4ports

[Allan Jude]

On 03/12/2015 10:45, rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Ilya,
> 
> Well, better you patch it as you already know the layout of
> dialog4ports's code, as you've been main dev and you know where to start
> patching. I believe it's a little change which would cost you only hour
> or few. ;)
> + you are way more experienced in C then I (I did it only for about 4
>   months)
> 
> Just throw a patch and I'll gladly test it. (added hackers@)
> 
> 
> Domagoj Smolčić
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:54:47 +0300
> Ilya A. Arkhipov <rum1cro at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, now dialog4ports can't to get from STDIN any data.
>> But if you want you(or maybe I) can prepare patch for that ^_^
>>
>> 12.03.2015, 07:45, "rank1seeker at gmail.com" <rank1seeker at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm contacting you because you have developed dialog4ports and I'll
>>> try to be very short in my request.
>>>
>>> GOAL: File "/var/db/ports/$PORT/options" being created via 'make
>>> config' as it is when ENTER is pressed as soon as dialog was
>>> displayed.
>>>
>>> Before 9.0 my solution was:
>>> When in port's dir (DOESN'T have "/var/db/ports/$PORT/options" file
>>> set => doesn't exists yet) --
>>> # make config << MyEND
>>> o
>>> MyEND
>>> --
>>> Additionally, I avoided dialog being displayed by sending it
>>> to /dev/null. Once "/var/db/ports/$PORT/options" is created, task
>>> is done => NO build, install, etc ...
>>>
>>> Now as I understand, change to "raw" mode type of dialog4ports's
>>> STDIN, which differs from pipe's buffered mode, makes me unable to
>>> pipe ENTER (\n) to dialog
>>>
>>> Now I'm forced to use lang/expect which is overhead and very slow!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Domagoj Smolčić
>>
> 
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If you just want to accept the defaults, setting the environment
variable BATCH=YES will skip displaying dialog4ports entirely


-- 
Allan Jude