Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

[Elias Chrysocheris]

On Saturday 02 of October 2010 13:27:00 Thomas Mueller wrote:
> How can one do a massive portupgrade, as with -r or -R, without being
> interrupted by options configuration screens for many individual ports? 
> Idea is to let it run unattended such as when I might run it starting just
> before bedtime.  Doing "make config" ahead of time also gives the chance
> to recover from a typo at the configuration screen (high risk).
> 
> Best thing I can think of is, using multimedia/ffmpeg as an example, is
> doing a dry run
> 
> portupgrade -Rn multimedia/ffmpeg |& tee -a wouldbe.log
> 
> This would show what other packages would need to be portupgraded and avoid
> reconfiguring up-to-date dependencies.  Then I would go to each of those
> directories in the ports tree and run "make config".
> 
> Running "make config-recursive" in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg would
> produce configuration screens for all dependencies, including those that
> are up-to-date.
> 
> I tried
> 
> portupgrade -RCn multimedia/ffmpeg |& tee -a wouldbe.log
> 
> but then I got all dependency configuration screens, including those that
> were up-to-date, and also the interface didn't work right: I got garbage
> when trying to respond; it didn't write to the configuration screen but
> produced non-color garbage to the background.
> 
> Running "make config-recursive" in /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg would
> configure all dependencies, including those that are up-to-date and
> therefore not in need of portupgrading, though "make config-recursive"
> seems appropriate for a first build/install of a port.
> 
> But I think there is no perfect way to be sure of doing all "make config"s
> in advance, since selectable options could require additional
> dependencies.
> 
> If you try to portupgrade perl to 5.12 and everything that depends on it,
> as advised in UPDATING file, date 20100715, you will likely get a lot of
> configuration dialog screens: I speak from experience, would surely like a
> way to do all these "make config"s at the beginning.
> 
> Tom
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If you are sure that the default configuration settings are OK for you, then 
one way is to perform a portupgrade with the switches --batch --yes, like
portupgrade --batch --yes -a

This will assume that the default settings are those you like and will not ask 
you anything about configuration screens e.t.c.

Elias