i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster

[Sandra Kachelmann]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Sandra Kachelmann
<s.kachelmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Sandra Kachelmann
> <s.kachelmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If you absolutely do not want to see the OPTIONS screens, no matter
>>>> what, then add -G (see man page for details).
>>>
>>> No, that's not what -G does.  -G makes portmaster handle the options screen
>>> similar to portupgrade eg waiting to ask you until it runs into it.
>>>
>>> Setting BATCH=yes in make.conf does work, maybe BATCH?=yes breaks it, my
>>> make.conf fu is only sightly better than it documentation which isn't much.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Adam Vande More
>>
>> OK, that does work:
>>
>> Setting BATCH=yes in /etc/make.conf and running:
>>
>> $ portmaster --no-confirm -G /usr/ports/x11/xorg
>>
>> But is there really no way to specify it as argument of portmaster?
>>
>> Sandra
>
> Think I found it:
>
> portmaster --no-confirm -G -m 'BATCH=yes' /usr/ports/x11/xorg
>
> This seems to do what I want. Still --batch would be nice - guess I'll
> create a shell alias.
>
> Sorry for all the lame questions - it seems that I want something
> really special nobody else is interested in.

Hmm...

I just tried to update an outdated system with:

$ portmaster --no-confirm -G -m 'BATCH=yes' -a

after a while it asked me whether I want to delete pcre - so -m
BATCH=yes does not work.

Sandra