From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 01:50:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780BD106566C for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 01:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE408FC14 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 01:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22810 invoked by uid 399); 1 Jan 2011 01:50:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 1 Jan 2011 01:50:32 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4D1E8866.7050509@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:50:30 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: marco , freebsd-ports References: <20101231091044.GA98464@lordsith.net> In-Reply-To: <20101231091044.GA98464@lordsith.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: ports-mgmt/portconf , ports-mgmt/portmaster and make args X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:50:33 -0000 On 12/31/2010 01:10, marco wrote: > Here is what i'd like to achieve: > > use portmaster with the -P option (using PM_PACKAGES=first in > /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc) to have a package installed if > available,_but_ when a port matches a port I've defined in > /usr/local/etc/ports.conf to use certain make args then_don't_ > install the package but actually build the port. > > Is that achievable using the portmaster and portconf ports? In a word, no, which makes using the option in portmaster.rc less desirable of course. If someone can come up with a programmatic way of determining if such settings exist in ports.conf I'd be willing to consider adding the support, but given the wide variety of syntax that is supported I think such a thing would be difficult. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/