From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 17:54:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5198416A41F for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:54:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dtsam@cc.ece.ntua.gr) Received: from mx-out-02.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B08A43D60 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dtsam@cc.ece.ntua.gr) Received: from mx-av-01.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-02.forthnet.gr (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBHHsvuE024248; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:54:57 +0200 Received: from mx-in-03.forthnet.gr (mx-in-03.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.26]) by mx-av-01.forthnet.gr (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBHHsufn027584; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:54:56 +0200 Received: from [192.168.254.1] (ppp19-adsl-213.ath.forthnet.gr [212.54.218.213]) by mx-in-03.forthnet.gr (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBHHssoU009265; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:54:55 +0200 Authentication-Results: mx-in-03.forthnet.gr from=dtsam@cc.ece.ntua.gr; sender-id=neutral; spf=neutral Message-ID: <43A450EE.4090005@cc.ece.ntua.gr> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:54:54 +0200 From: Dimitris Tsamis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael C. Shultz" References: <000a01c60cb3$8aac6130$2401a8c0@XGISH> <43A35C7C.90909@cc.ece.ntua.gr> <200512161805.25390.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200512161805.25390.ringworm01@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passing make options to portmanager 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: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:54:59 -0000 Michael C. Shultz wrote: >On Friday 16 December 2005 16:31, Dimitris Tsamis wrote: > > >>I want to switch from portupgrade to portmanager, but I have a few >>questions. >> >>First of all, how do I pass make options to portmanager? (like the -m >>option for portupgrade). I often pass selected make options to >>multimedia players to choose what formats will be supported. >> >> > >Place make options in either pkgtools.conf, pm-020.conf or /etc/make.conf, >man portmanager explains how. There isn't a way to pass make options >from portmanager's command line. > > Thanks for clearing it up. >>Can someone verify that portmanager reads pkgtools.conf? >> >> > >You can see for yourself, run portmanager -u -ui, it will stop >before upgrading the first port. As it collects initial information >any make options found in either pm-020.conf or pkgtools.conf >will be shown to the right of the port name. One caveat, you >must have ruby and portupgrade installed or portmanager will >ignore pkgtools.conf. > > I prefer to use pkgtools.conf because from what I understand it is a system file, whereas pm-020.conf is only for portmanager (I have ruby and portupgrade installed). > > >>Thanks for your time >> >> > >welcome > >-Mike > > Thanks for your answer :)