i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster

[B. Estrade]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:37:42PM +0200, Sandra Kachelmann wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Sandra Kachelmann
> > <s.kachelmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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 I just tried to update an outdated system with: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.
> >
> > Come on, please read the man page.
> 
> Ignore me if you don't want to help. The man page is too huge.

The man page is not that big, I just checked due to my interest in
this thread. portmaster seems to be very configurable and scriptable,
but I would suggest that among the "examples" in the man page be the
idiom(s) one might want to use if a complete batch process is desired.

Cheers,
Brett

> 
> Sandra
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