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On 08/27/2014 21:12, Don Lewis wrote:
> I'm pretty much ready to throw in the towel on upgrading ports in place
> with portupgrade and I'm planning on switching to poudriere.  As part of
> this conversion, I'd like to figure out what ports have non-default
> options and which options are set to non-default values.  Then I can
> figure out whether I want to set each option back to default or
> propagate the non-default value to poudriere.
> 
> Also, since the option files for each port contain the values for all
> the options, if I have a port with one non-default option value set, how
> can I follow updates to the default values of the other options?

This may help:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?53FDE021.5030108

I have not abandoned all my options files yet, I've eliminated some over
time as I switch to defining options in make.conf.  I'll probably get
burned some day and finish it off.