On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Dr. Rene Hexel wrote:
> > In at least one case right now you can't do an unattended make (cddbd has the
> > config script). On things like this with cddbd what is the general opinion
> > here? In my local copy I patched config.sh to take an override from mk.conf
> > so I can just set the appropriate vars up and shoot off a long term build.
> 
>   I believe that packages, if possible, should not be interactive, but
> take their defaults from make variables if necessary.  At least it
> should be possible to override interactive behaviour with these
> variables.  This way, batch builds should be less cumbersome than they
> are now ...

Just a note, the pkgsrc/net/upclient pkg gets info from /etc/mk.conf if
available, and goes interactive else. Unfortunately it's kind of
information that produces binary pkgs that can't be shared easily.


 - Hubert

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