portupgrade++

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 01:29:04PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> [030422 10:32] wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:13:03AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > Just wanted to say thanks for one of the coolest programs ever. I
> > > just wish there was a way to get it to skip (use the default) the
> > > configuration screen for samba and ghostscript and whatnot.
> > 
> > bsd.port.mk tests the BATCH variable to skip interactive ports.  See
> > the comments in that file.
> 
> Wouldn't it make sense for it to set that when run with -a?

That might be a reasonable thing to do.  I always forget this as well
and come back the next day to find that portupgrade upgraded 2 ports
and then hit an interactive one.

> Unless some other "do interactive" flag was set?  It would be cool
> if there was a way for ports to remeber/inherit previous configs
> done when installed or upgraded and just use those.

I have patches :-)

Kris

P.S. I think we can stop CC'ing kan at this point and switch over to
the real portupgrade maintainer :)
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