From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 18 20:42:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6FD37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:42:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta08.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta08.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B85A43EDC for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:42:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.67.234]) by mta08.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20021219044225.JAQC19187.mta08.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:42:25 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20021219153720.034324c0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: rbyrnes@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:40:42 +1100 To: Craig Boston From: Rob B Subject: Re: port make options Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1040271889.385.4.camel@aldaris2.auir.gank.org> References: <1040271178.98088.22.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net> <5.1.1.6.2.20021219145016.0343bae0@127.0.0.1> <1040271178.98088.22.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 15:24 19/12/2002, Craig Boston sent this up the stick: >Sorry for jumping in, this is just a minor pet peeve of mine. I use >MAKE_ARGS a lot for portupgrade, but what about for the ones with the >stupid dialog boxes? (samba, mod_php4, etc) > >Many of them assume defaults when BATCH is set and are difficult (need a >lot of \\\") or sometimes even impossible to override with environment >variables. > >I have no problem with being user-friendly, but IMHO when these are put >in the port should also be automation-friendly and allow itself to be >configured with simple environment variables. Hmm ... this is exactly what I was trying to accomplish ... is BATCH something that can be tweaked by the user? cheer,s Rob >On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 22:12, Andrew Thomson wrote: > > sure is.. > > > > check out /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf > > > > MAKE_ARGS section.. -- BE ALERT!!!! (The world needs more lerts ...) This is random quote 305 of a collection of 1269 Distance from the centre of the brewing universe: [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message