Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 16:02:31 UTC 2010


On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Brandon Gooch
<jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Thomas Mueller
> <mueller6727 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Well, I'm not using portupgrade, but instead ports-mgmt/portmaster:
>
> # portmaster --force-config --no-confirm [...] lang/perl5.12
>
> Gets all of the config menus out of the way (--force-config), and
> doesn't sit waiting for confirmation to proceed with install
> (--no-confirm). I do this only the first time I build a port, or if I
> need to change a config option and reinstall.
>

On portmaster version 3, just use -G.  No more options menus.

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Adam Vande More


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