From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 09:14:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AF516A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 09:14:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF5B43D31 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 09:14:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226])j4B9CmsB027687; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:12:48 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) j4B9EKau005234; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:14:20 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost)j4B9EKD0005233; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:14:20 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:14:20 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Carsten Fuchs Message-ID: <20050511091420.GB5036@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <20050511105604.6fdf5cac.crstn_fuchs@yahoo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050511105604.6fdf5cac.crstn_fuchs@yahoo.de> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disappeared options dialog when installing ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:14:28 -0000 On 2005-05-11 10:56, Carsten Fuchs 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