Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 02:29:37 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Stein <joes@seaport.net> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recompiling all distfiles? Message-ID: <199711111029.CAA09170@shasta.wstein.com> In-Reply-To: <199711100051.QAA08727@bubble.didi.com> from Satoshi Asami at "Nov 9, 97 04:51:39 pm"
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> I can't think of a good way to do this, but if you just want to > recompile several ports, you can make a file called "makefile" (note > lowercase `m') in /usr/ports that looks like this. I can... It would require a change to the core of the make system, however. Parse /var/db/pkg... While that would rebuild all installed ports, (possibly re-fetching the old ones), it may work a little bit better. (Besides, most people probably don't clean /usr/ports/distfiles that often anyway... but that's an overgeneralization.) joe
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