Some packages attempt to prompt the user for certain settings during
installation. Thus, this parameter sets the environment variable
$BATCH to 'yes', which forces package installation scripts to accept
default values for these interactive prompts. This should work for all
prompts that have a default value and aren't implemented through a
custom script (as this variable is built into the ports/package system).
FIXME: Package install should fail if it prompts and batch isn't set;
currently, the install hangs indefinitely.
TODO: Allow user to specify the answers to certain prompts.
I (github.com/mwpher) have NOT tested this with any packages besides
bsdstats. It's a small improvement, but not a complete answer to all
the complexities of package installation.
In case of release repositories or other special cases you might not
need the autorefreshing of the repos. This patch adds a configure
option instead of hard enabling this.
Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org>
re.match in has_changed function never worked properly, because match
requires searched sequence to be present exactly at a start of processed
string, which is not the case here.
module.exit_json() does not like when the "changed" variable contains a
match object:
TypeError: <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x81e2ae58> is not JSON serializable
Running the module with the argument "upgrade=yes" invokes an upgrade of
all installed packages.
While here clean up some comments.
Functionality requested by @qbit.
