Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:41:23 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port xyz: the grey screen with all the checkboxes is wrong and won't come back Message-ID: <539c60b90710281041t6af4263do7876f1160ca07fcd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071028172445.GA19703@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <539c60b90710281013j5bb07b3dx4c819a4d51438d9a@mail.gmail.com> <20071028172445.GA19703@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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so where, phyisically, on the disk, does the data from make config go then? I looked in <port>/. after make clean, and it's as clean as fresh snow... Steve On 10/28/07, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > 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... > > > > > -- > <Insert your favourite quote here.> > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089
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