automate ports upgrade (portmanager -u -l)

[Simon Jolle]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:53 PM, RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
>> How to do unattended ports upgrade? I am using FreeBSD 7.0 and
>> portmanager ask me strange questions[0] (about compile-time options)
>
> It's not actually portmanager, it's the ports-system itself. This
> question comes-up regularly. Try looking for the thread:
>
> "overnight upgrade interrupted by questions"

Thank you, the thread can be found here[0]. I use now "portupgrade -a --batch"
There are so many port management tools. Which one is officially
recommended? What do you use and why?

cheers
Simon

[0] http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg189925.html
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