Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:14:20 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Carsten Fuchs <crstn_fuchs@yahoo.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disappeared options dialog when installing ports Message-ID: <20050511091420.GB5036@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20050511105604.6fdf5cac.crstn_fuchs@yahoo.de> References: <20050511105604.6fdf5cac.crstn_fuchs@yahoo.de>
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On 2005-05-11 10:56, Carsten Fuchs <crstn_fuchs@yahoo.de> wrote:
> I have a (simple) question about installing from the ports coll. The
> 1st time I issued `make install`in /usr/ports/www/firefox it showed a
> configuration menu where I could select things like xfs. I disabled
> this xfs option. Now if I want to install Firefox again it won't show
> me this configuration dialog anymore. I tried `make deinstall` and
> `make reinstall`- that wouldn't help. I even tried to delete the
> firefox ports directory and did a cvsup - but that dialog didn't show
> up.
These options are saved in /var/db/ports/XXX where XXX is the name of
the port (without a version number). If you look on my own workstation
at work, this directory includes:
orion:/home/keramida$ ls -l /var/db/ports
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Nov 4 2004 boehm-gc/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Oct 8 2004 firefox/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 May 10 14:38 gaim/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 6 2004 gettext/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Dec 6 15:57 gnuplot/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 28 2004 libxml2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 6 2004 libxslt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 7 2004 mozilla/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 6 2004 python/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Mar 21 14:56 samba3/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Apr 3 16:20 sdl/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jul 6 2004 teTeX/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Oct 26 2004 teTeX-texmf/
drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Oct 11 2004 windowmaker/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Feb 22 17:31 xfig/
orion:/home/keramida$
> How can I set these installation options once I already installed a
> port. Where are these options saved on the harddrive? Will I have to
> run the configure script by hand?
By removing /var/db/ports/firefox. Running the following as root before
you attempt to reinstall firefox should be all it takes:
# cd /var/db/ports
# rm -fr firefox
Regards,
Giorgos
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