From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 17:57:49 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 7A61816A41F for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:57:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0A443D94 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:57:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so859471wra for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:57:31 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=ScZTYm1FRW5YUcqGwSgYzNmqTiY7N60NS5FZk03pd+bt0HppZXDcQZYYQ+hwAzzmRJ9slCxL9a0QZewsdBIS9JRQqUIkLBbnLlEHzlZSftltLwNTg9Wz60eAXzzyS0EwiqK4bhiPOmyVSpuxpc1c8zPmgnf1Rc8JCI688msdB4A= Received: by 10.65.121.10 with SMTP id y10mr777944qbm; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:57:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e16sm1248628qba.2005.12.17.09.57.30; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:57:31 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: Dimitris Tsamis Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:57:27 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <000a01c60cb3$8aac6130$2401a8c0@XGISH> <200512161805.25390.ringworm01@gmail.com> <43A450EE.4090005@cc.ece.ntua.gr> In-Reply-To: <43A450EE.4090005@cc.ece.ntua.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512170957.28015.ringworm01@gmail.com> 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 17:57:49 -0000 On Saturday 17 December 2005 09:54, Dimitris Tsamis wrote: > 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 :) Welcome -Mike