How to make a make install without questions?

[Lars Engels]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:10:29PM +0200, TooMany Secrets wrote:
>  Hi!
> 
>  Excuse me if this is a estupid question, but in six years with
>  FreeBSD, today I haven't still an answer to this:
>  - If I make a "make install clean", in a port like "x11/kde3", are
>  there any way to make the lack of questions? Or maybe better, are
>  there any way to make anything like "make -y (or -Y for YES options)
>  install clean"?
> 
>  The trouble is ports like KDE, with platform independency (more or
>  less cpu power), take more time because you need to stay (more or
>  less) in front of computer to choose and accept the port options.
>  I understand that you don't need this with other ports (like apache,
>  php, etc), for obvious reasons. But I think that with ports like
>  gnome2 or kde3, maybe I believe that it would be a great saving of
>  time.
> 
>  Sorry if the question is understandable for my bad english.
> 

Hello Mr. TooMany,

the portupgrade suite is what you probably want to use.
You can set BATCH=YES or use the --batch switch which suppresses the
OPTIONS menu.
e.g.: portupgrade --batch -a to upgrade all ports or
portinstall --batch sysutils/screen


Lars
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