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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

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