From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 31 14:40:27 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 8976837B404 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:40:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9067743E42 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9VMe9A42124; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:40:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:40:09 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interactive port example Message-ID: <20021101094009.B363@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Sue Blake , Edwin Groothuis , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20021101023943.Z363@welearn.com.au> <20021031222315.GX934@k7.mavetju> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021031222315.GX934@k7.mavetju>; from edwin@mavetju.org on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 09:23:15AM +1100 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 09:23:15AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > 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. Thanks, they'll do nicely. I particularly like the use of the familiar dialog(1) interface to help the user wade through multiple options. -- Regards, -*Sue*- http://www.sievx.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message