always-interactive ports

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Mon Nov 24 06:15:54 PST 2008


on 24/11/2008 15:49 Erik Trulsson said the following:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:55:55PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> I wonder if we have any flag for always-interactive ports i.e. ports
>> that prompt user for something regardless of all batch/interactivity
>> options. One example is java/jdk* ports that prompt user for license
>> acceptance.
>>
>> If we don't have such a flag, maybe we should add one.
>>
>> One use, for instance, is to skip such ports for portupgrade --batch.
> 
>>From /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk :
> 
>   # IS_INTERACTIVE
>   #               - Set this if your port needs to interact with the user
>   #                 during any step in a package build.  User can then decide
>   #                 to skip this port by setting ${BATCH}, or compiling only
>   #                 the interactive ports by setting ${INTERACTIVE}.
>   #                 Default: not set.
> 
> 

Thanks a lot!

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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