From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 28 17:46:51 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 563E916A474 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:46:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3611D13C494 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:46:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l9SHkn0B006572; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:46:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, stevefranks@ieee.org Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:46:43 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <539c60b90710281013j5bb07b3dx4c819a4d51438d9a@mail.gmail.com> <20071028172445.GA19703@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <539c60b90710281041t6af4263do7876f1160ca07fcd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90710281041t6af4263do7876f1160ca07fcd@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710281346.45665.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:46:51 -0000 On Sunday 28 October 2007, Steve Franks wrote: > 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... It goes in /var/db/ports JN > 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