overnight upgrade interrupted by questions

[Chris Whitehouse]

Mel wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 22:10:41 Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> 
>> Do something like [sorry not exact syntax as I don't have access to a
>> freebsd machine]:
>> foreach i (`cat portlist`)
>> foreach? cd /usr/ports/$i && make config
> 
> You should 'make config-conditional' to save yourself some work. make config 
> always shows you the dialogue, while config-conditional checks to see if the 
> variablenames have changed and if not, just moves on using what you already 
> have in /var/db/ports.

That's very useful thank you

Chris

> 
> These are the ports that will bite you:
> # find /usr/ports -name 'configure' -path '*/scripts/*' \
> 	-exec grep -l '/usr/bin/dialog' {} +
> /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/scripts/configure
> /usr/ports/japanese/typist/scripts/configure
> /usr/ports/misc/sonytv/scripts/configure
> /usr/ports/print/apsfilter/scripts/configure
> /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu/scripts/configure
> /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gpl/scripts/configure
>