Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:21:36 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: "Arend P. van der Veen" <apvanderveen@att.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsdb and cvsup Message-ID: <20070807091853.L90856@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <46B787A0.5030005@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <46B5E0F8.7050405@att.net> <20070806083111.F74284@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <46B706BF.40000@att.net> <20070806153345.Y6336@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <46B750C9.7050108@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20070806214438.O36390@obelix.home.rakhesh.com> <46B787A0.5030005@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > There isn't one place you can go to see everything that might affect > a particular port. The port's Makefile is a good place to start, > and most port Maintainers will document to a greater or lesser > extent what tunables and so forth are available within the file, > although it does help if you understand make(1) syntax. <snip> Wow! Now that's an email! Thanks a lot for all that info Matthew! Things make a lot more sense now. :) Much appreacited! Regards, Rakhesh
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