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Subject: Re: re-installing applications  using ports
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On Friday 23 December 2005 03:48, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Friday, December 23, 2005 6:00:15 AM
> Robert Stevenson <robsworld2000@yahoo.com>
> Subject: re-installing applications  using ports
>
> Wrote these words of wisdom:
> > I have begun an installation using the ports
> > collection but later I decided to cancel it so I could
> > change some install options. When I start installation
> > again I get the message " Found saved configuration
> > for ..... " then immediately begins compiling. I could
> > no longer see the installation menu where I could set
> > the options.
> >
> > The questions is, how do I re-initialize the
> > installation process so I could go to the installation
> > menu once more and set the options?
>
> ***** REPLY SEPARATOR *****
> On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:
>
> I would use: 'make distclean' to clean out everything that you started
> doing.
>
> Then I believe you can use this:
>
> make config
>
> or
>
> make config-recursive
>
> to reconfigure the port. The latter might be the better way for you.

When I want to reconfigure everything I just rm -r  /var/db/ports first :)

-Mike