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Date:      Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:03:10 -0400
From:      Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To:        Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port WITH_* options and updates/portupgrade
Message-ID:  <20030818140310.GA49073@basement.kutulu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030818092850.GD718@galgenberg.net>
References:  <m3bruomaxq.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20030818092850.GD718@galgenberg.net>

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* Ulrich Spoerlein <q@uni.de> [030818 05:29]:

> I think the whole dependancy thing should be thought over. E.g. I have
> to specify WITH_APACHE2 to every port, because that's what I got
> installed and apache1 still is the default. Another example is, that I

In this case you could add "WITH_APACHE2=3Dyes" in your /etc/make.conf. =20
I have a few things there to define WITHOUT_X11, WITH_THREADS, and a=20
couple other commonly used variables.

> have lynx-ssl installed. Now every port depending on it looks if a lynx
> binary is available (which is) and registers it's dependancy to
> www/lynx. But www/lynx is not installed and therefore I get
> inconsitencies in the package DB.

This is a harder problem to solve automatically, but I get into the=20
habit of running a pkgdb -f every couple of days to eliminate these.

--Mike




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