From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 28 17:49:26 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 77F6516A4C5 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:49:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A246213C48D for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:49:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-25-183.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.25.183]:54181 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1ImCGJ-0004JF-5w for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:49:24 +0100 Received: (qmail 7578 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2007 18:49:22 +0100 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 28 Oct 2007 18:49:22 +0100 Received: (qmail 20107 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Oct 2007 18:49:22 +0100 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:49:22 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Steve Franks Message-ID: <20071028174922.GA20079@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Franks , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <539c60b90710281013j5bb07b3dx4c819a4d51438d9a@mail.gmail.com> <20071028172445.GA19703@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <539c60b90710281041t6af4263do7876f1160ca07fcd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <539c60b90710281041t6af4263do7876f1160ca07fcd@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 1ImCGJ-0004JF-5w. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1ImCGJ-0004JF-5w befd9de0154cdc7ff0e39ab5d0a0ef45 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 17:49:26 -0000 On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:41:23AM -0700, 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... /var/db/ports/ > > 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