portupgrade question

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Apr 6 19:32:48 PDT 2009


On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, new_guy wrote:

> Silly question... when I use portupgrade on gnome installs, it interrupts
> itself a lot to prompt for config options. I normally take all the defaults.
> Is there a way to use portupgrade without all the stopping for config
> questions? I'd like to leave my laptop alone over-night doing a portupgrade
> of gnome... etc without baby-sitting it. If something does happen to get
> built without a setting I want, I can always redo it later, but for 95% of
> all the builds, I take the defaults and would rather not be prompted on
> those.

'portupgrade -c' causes it to show all the config screens first.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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