From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 28 17:41:24 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 4506A16A420 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:41:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1740813C4B8 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:41:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so1839588waf for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:41:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=LD1uy97ob6Ll2D6CXKHKnP/kA/T71StPw2dvvKXr7go=; b=t700h3uXE7OMPuQid49jnkOeqZMqYwA88bLL0ZM/jSUmVoEOjRKLMMYKkTOYBoJYgeDxspAvfKiTeyN4CW541VpBn8gJTfwfykxesoCs+EWqrbaKc8so0nzFjtwVpe1tGtxFE8ohAs+V+3+3818jtKg0f4FnQI6bT0XX/4odPF8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=c6mTjAUN6zWzCtrMaNkuNnmJKHl0RNMsKC7ea2N5xbpRqK+QaO4i5/q/JC05PsjDKE/fuxX2NDaFyaTf3Puvqc31/LqQtXt4eNV5sUXHa64QkwyWADumYb49y5xsHqV0UnDmfBh48O5rbv+oxH26D97rLm3QUdFHu4pt1gHH32s= Received: by 10.114.137.2 with SMTP id k2mr2593083wad.1193593283386; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.74.5 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90710281041t6af4263do7876f1160ca07fcd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:41:23 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "Steve Franks" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20071028172445.GA19703@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <539c60b90710281013j5bb07b3dx4c819a4d51438d9a@mail.gmail.com> <20071028172445.GA19703@owl.midgard.homeip.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 715f9a499d6025cf Cc: 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 Reply-To: stevefranks@ieee.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:41:24 -0000 so where, phyisically, on the disk, does the data from make config go then? I looked in /. after make clean, and it's as clean as fresh snow... Steve On 10/28/07, Erik Trulsson 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... > > > > > -- > > Erik Trulsson > ertr1013@student.uu.se > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089