From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Nov 12 17:41:22 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6AF7A2D1F8 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:41:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from smtp206.alice.it (smtp206.alice.it [82.57.200.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E38A1A84 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:41:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (79.32.6.132) by smtp206.alice.it (8.6.060.28) (authenticated as acanedi@alice.it) id 56139B8306BB34A1 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:41:13 +0100 Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.15.2/8.14.9) with ESMTP id tACHfC3i022623 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:41:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Subject: Re: Trouble generating INDEX To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <5644A642.9000606@netfence.it> <20151112144954.GS19913@home.opsec.eu> <5644B392.4060306@netfence.it> <5644B759.2090106@infracaninophile.co.uk> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <5644CF38.7070308@netfence.it> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:41:12 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5644B759.2090106@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:41:22 -0000 On 11/12/15 16:59, Matthew Seaman wrote: > What you have installed should ideally have no bearing on making an > INDEX. What will affect the INDEX are settings in your /etc/make.conf > or similar and various OPTIONS choices that can modify the dependency graph. I thought so... but: I have (had) nothing mysql-related in /etc/make.conf, and no OPTIONS for amarok-kde4 (which I never installed). > This > works fairly well if you're always building from ports directly on the > machine where the software will be deployed I do. I'm always building from source on the same machine that will run the program. > but it really doesn't help > when you're installing packages built elsewhere. Not my case (at least not yet). > I thought however that MySQL wasn't one of these, and the dependency > version choice is entirely controlled by whatever the setting in > DEFAULT_VERSIONS was. In any case I solved now; I'm just writing in case it can help others. bye & Thanks av.