Install ports quietly

[vist]

Dear colleagues, please explain me how to install port and all of its dependecies quietly? When installing most of dependent ports I have to config them. Can I use some key that will make the script to work automatically and install dependent port automatically with default (or, for example, maximal) configuration?

 

[SirDice]

Set BATCH see ports(7).

 

[vist]

Please, explain me how to set BATCH?

 

[pbd]

If you are using csh/tcsh:

# setenv BATCH 1; make install clean

If you are using sh/bash:

# BATCH=1; make install clean

Or choose options for all dependencies before building:

# make config-recursive && make install clean

 

[Martillo1]

# make install clean BATCH="YES"

 

[vist]

BATCH will make all dependent ports to install with default settings?

 

[SirDice]

BATCH will make all dependent ports to install with default settings?

Yes, unless the settings have been set previously using config or config-recursive. If there are no previously set options the defaults will be used.

Keep in mind it will also process /etc/make.conf and any options that are turned on on the commandline.

Setting BATCH prevents that OPTION menu from appearing.

 

[wblock@]

Before building, use
# make config-recursive
to set all the options at once. Since options have already been set, they won't appear during the build.

 

[phoenix]

Or, use portmaster(8) instead of using the ports tree directly. It configures all the ports (and dependencies) ahead of time, before starting the actual compiling and installing. It can be installed from ports-mgmt/portmaster

 

[Martillo1]

There is also an option in ports-mgmt/portupgrade: --batch

# portinstall --batch [i]portname[/i]

 

[vist]

Thank you for you advice! The problem is solved!