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Annoying blue config dialog
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There was a flag that used the default options when those blue config dialog appear while installing ports. I'm using portupgrade and i just can't sit by my PC all the time and i forgot the flag. Read the manual page, and it just isn't there, or I'm blind. If it isn't the same flag for the portupgrade and normal makeing can you please write both? Thank you. Regards, _hmp_ |
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When using portupgrade, you can also use the --batch option.
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You can also use the -c flag with portupgrade if you actually want to configure the OPTIONS before anything is built.
I think it is a bit unnecessary to do this for most ports if you stay on top of things. If you let your ports go for a long time or are doing something like chasing a gettext shlib bump, then that would probably be the better option. I don't know why portupgrade has such a bad rap; when used correctly it is a very good ports management utility. |
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installed who can not effort any down time. Portupgrade on the desktop computer with 1000 applications and libraries installed is waist of time. It takes far more time to upgrade the port than to build from the scratch IMHO of course |
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Depends on whether you are doing it in a smart and efficient manner, or just blindly running -a every week.
Just because there is an update in the ports tree, doesn't mean you have to install it right away. My home desktop/server hybrid has over 1000 ports installed, with a couple of hundred updates available every week, but I spend less than an hour a week doing port upgrades. Unless there's a major jump in version number, an known security issue shown via portaudit, or a specific feature that I really need ... I don't update installed apps. Blindly running portupgrade -a every week, especially with --batch, is just asking for trouble, corrupted installs, and issues. |
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and you didn't sound so confident in this thread http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread...=4827#post4827 By the way, my religious affiliation is Christianity while yours seems to be FreeBSD It is a very,very good operating system but it is not a religion even if you are making living out of it. Last edited by Oko; 26th December 2008 at 11:23 AM. |
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I was also playing quite a bit lately with Linux binaries on OpenBSD. Not just Skype but with Epkowa and Maple. The Linux compatibility layer will at this point require some kernel hacking to be of any serious use. I hope Linux compatibility layer in FreeBSD is in better state. As I said my religious affiliation is Christianity. Last edited by Oko; 27th December 2008 at 06:02 PM. |
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I agree that FreeBSD is a good operating system, but I'm not religious about it. I try to help others, and I try to get help from others when I require it. Sometimes people post less than factual statements, which I try to correct, but that doesn't mean I'm religious about FreeBSD. I correct people on a lot of things, mostly grammatical errors, so I guess I'm religious about correcting I don't make a living from FreeBSD, though I wish I did. I work mostly with Solaris/HP-UX/AIX at work.
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