From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Aug 23 14:37:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54CB637B409 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:37:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 6382 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Aug 2001 21:36:06 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 00:36:06 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: John Baldwin Cc: Alexander Langer , ports@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports.conf Message-ID: <20010824003606.D1714@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: John Baldwin , Alexander Langer , ports@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org References: <20010824001737.B1714@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:32:35PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:32:35PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 23-Aug-01 Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:59:41PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:07:29PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > >> > This ports.conf should probably maintained somewhere in the ports/ tree > >> > instead. > >> > >> I disagree. I use a common NFS mounted /usr/ports to build stuff, but > >> each machine is different. On some I have the commercial Motif, on > >> others I want NOPORTSDOC=true to save space. > > > > I do believe this does not conflict with what Alex wrote. > > I think he meant 'maintained in the ports/ tree' just as make.conf > > is 'maintained in the src/ tree', that is, there is a src/etc/make.conf > > file with evolving defaults. Yes, ports.conf should probably live > > in /etc or some such place, but I, too, think that it should be > > maintained in the ports tree, quite possibly in ports/Mk/. > > Erm, how does it get installed then? :) I think what you want is this perhaps: > > /usr/ports/Mk/ports.conf > /etc/ports.conf > > instead of > > /etc/defaults/ports.conf > /etc/ports.conf Yeah, I wondered about installation myself, just after I fired off the previous message :) Yes, /usr/ports/Mk/ports.conf overridable by /etc/ports.conf sounds like just the thing! G'luck, Peter -- I am the thought you are now thinking. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message