Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 20:42:47 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports remembering old configurations ... Message-ID: <20010523204246.D19376@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105232041090.436-100000@mobile.hub.org>; from scrappy@hub.org on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:46:41PM -0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105232041090.436-100000@mobile.hub.org>
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:46:41PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Has anyone looked at what it would take to 'save' the configuration > between builds? Basically, if you build/install, it saves your build > options to a +CONFIG file or something like that ... when you go to build > it a second time (say to add a new option), it re-reads that file first > and sets the defaults based on that ... ? Yes, we've discussed this at length in the past. In fact I wrote a little paper on how to deal with this (and many other problems in ports) about eight months ago... -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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