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From: Bob Eager on 4 Dec 2009 15:52 On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:49:29 +0100, Christoph Weber-Fahr wrote: > Spam(a)ControlQ.com wrote: > >> It seems that installed ports/packages must be recompiled/relinked. I >> have 680 installed packages, and each one is being systematically >> recompiled from the ports. This would be OK, were it not for the fact >> that some (not all) ports launch a curses based window manager (text >> based) to ask for configuration options, and the build freezes at that >> point, waiting for input. > > You are aware that this can be suppressed by the BATCH environment > variable? I think he is....it's been mentioned in this thread already, several times over the last day or three...you're a little late to the party! > furthermore, portupgrade also should suppress this accordingly. What do > you use for upgrading those ports? It's not automatic. portupgrade needs to be given --batch to do that. -- Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
From: Balwinder S Dheeman on 4 Dec 2009 20:06 On 12/05/2009 01:24 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:52:06 -0500, Spam(a)ControlQ.com wrote: >> It seems that installed ports/packages must be recompiled/relinked. I >> have 680 installed packages, and each one is being systematically >> recompiled from the ports. This would be OK, were it not for the fact >> that some (not all) ports launch a curses based window manager (text >> based) to ask for configuration options, and the build freezes at that >> point, waiting for input. Its been running for 3 days, with no end in >> sight, and I have to constantly check to see if the port/package build >> requires input. > > This is the recommended way of upgrading across _major_ branches (6.X -> > 7.0, 7.X -> 8.0, etc.). The fastest way to upgrade all packages is to > use pre-built packages from the CD-ROM and something like: > > portupgrade -PP Do keep an eye on how and wht 'portupgrade -PP' downloads the binary packages, even though they are *stale* ;) FreeBSD port systems and all the package build and, or management _suck_ like anything :( > Having said that, I prefer rebuilding the packages, because I like using > some non-default options in many of the ports. I'm sure, you still can't remove the bad and, or unwanted dependency hell from most of the ports; FreeBSD port has grown big, is quite un-maintained, yet boosted off much, but it is full of some serious flaws :( -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z Linux(a)HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://werc.homelinux.net/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/
From: Warren Block on 4 Dec 2009 22:44 Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM(a)cto.homelinux.net> wrote: > > Do keep an eye on how and wht 'portupgrade -PP' downloads the binary > packages, even though they are *stale* ;) FreeBSD port systems and all > the package build and, or management _suck_ like anything :( [...] > I'm sure, you still can't remove the bad and, or unwanted dependency > hell from most of the ports; FreeBSD port has grown big, is quite > un-maintained, yet boosted off much, but it is full of some serious flaws :( The ports system knocked over my trashcans. -- Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
From: Indi on 4 Dec 2009 23:26 On 2009-12-05, Warren Block <wblock(a)wonkity.com> wrote: > Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM(a)cto.homelinux.net> wrote: >> >> Do keep an eye on how and wht 'portupgrade -PP' downloads the binary >> packages, even though they are *stale* ;) FreeBSD port systems and all >> the package build and, or management _suck_ like anything :( > > [...] > >> I'm sure, you still can't remove the bad and, or unwanted dependency >> hell from most of the ports; FreeBSD port has grown big, is quite >> un-maintained, yet boosted off much, but it is full of some serious flaws :( > > The ports system knocked over my trashcans. > It turned me into a newt! Well I got better. -- indi Actually, I think FreeBSD ports totally rocks.
From: Harald Hanche-Olsen on 5 Dec 2009 10:08
+ talon(a)lpthe.jussieu.fr (Michel Talon): > And for the base system, when you get at the n.2 release, that is when > it becomes reasonably debugged, immediately a (n+1).0 release appears, > full of bugs, and the n.* becomes unmaintained. What universe do you live in? It must be quite exciting. In mine, it appears that 6.4, 7.1 and 7.2 are still maintained. -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/> - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell |