From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 31 14:23:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA86C37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3819D43E3B for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2533D2B8BD; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:23:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C9CF36A712B; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:23:15 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:23:15 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interactive port example Message-ID: <20021031222315.GX934@k7.mavetju> References: <20021101023943.Z363@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021101023943.Z363@welearn.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:39:43AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > Do we have a good example of a port that (optionally?) asks a lot > of questions in order to perform local configuration changes during > the installation stage? I'm mainly thinking about changing things > like paths and options in the software's config files and spreading > installed components among extra subdirectories within its standard > directory structure for an alternative setup style. When I had such a beast I looked at the mail/postfix configuration-file and later I found out that www/mod_php4 had the same thing. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message