From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 28 17:24:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F3216A421 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D8213C4A3 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:24:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-25-183.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.25.183]:50331 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1ImBsU-0002m6-7D for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:24:46 +0100 Received: (qmail 7291 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2007 18:24:45 +0100 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 28 Oct 2007 18:24:45 +0100 Received: (qmail 19789 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Oct 2007 18:24:45 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:24:45 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Steve Franks Message-ID: <20071028172445.GA19703@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Franks , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <539c60b90710281013j5bb07b3dx4c819a4d51438d9a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <539c60b90710281013j5bb07b3dx4c819a4d51438d9a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.25.183 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1ImBsU-0002m6-7D. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1ImBsU-0002m6-7D 34e5ca71ae5aa9697d6045ecda911609 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port xyz: the grey screen with all the checkboxes is wrong and won't come back X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:24:48 -0000 On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:13:24AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > Obviously, 'make clean' doesn't reset the configure screen. Don't know why. Because it is not designed to do that. > > I recall there was a faster way to fix this than 'portsnap extract' > but I'll be damned if I can remember, and the ports section of the > handbook doesn't even mention configure dialogs... 'make rmconfig' should remove a previously set configuration. 'make config' should display the configscreen again if it had already been set before. These are described in the ports(7) manpage (which contains lots of useful information regarding the ports system - not least the BUGS section. :-)) > > I'd love to add a snippet to the handbook to cover this, but the last > time I made an offer like that on doc@freebsd, it appears to have gone > into dev/null... > -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se