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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:22:30 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
To:        Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ./options-descr file suggestion for ports
Message-ID:  <20070613101823.F71859@thor.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <A2E1DABC-0F0E-475C-B282-0CC07C4278B5@khera.org>
References:  <200706090936.51775.david@vizion2000.net> <20070609203316.GC71246@voodoo.bawue.com> <20070611151636.GA16517@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <822946050706120826r75835defj2dbf76fc2ecfccb6@mail.gmail.com> <20070613093658.dk1r5iud8gssss0o@webmail.leidinger.net> <A2E1DABC-0F0E-475C-B282-0CC07C4278B5@khera.org>

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Vivek Khera wrote:

> On Jun 13, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>
>> First there where no OPTIONS, then OPTIONS was introduced. If you
>> feel annoyed by those ports which are not converted yet to OPTIONS
>> (because nobody felt annoyed enough to convert them), feel free to
>> submit patches for them.
>
> personally, I'm annoyed by ports that use OPTIONS because I cannot
> then set them globally in my make.conf file (which is copied around to
> all my servers).  I have to ensure that the proper OPTIONS are set on
> every machine on which I may build a port.
>
> Is it possible (and/or is anyone working on) a way to make the options
> setting non-interactive and pull the settings from a config file
> instead?

I use ports-mgmt/portconf.  It puts a hook into make.conf that reads it
for port configuration.  This allows make.conf to be different on each
system while having a configuration file you can copy to each system.

As for making non-interactive mode the default in ports.conf:
*: BATCH

Sean
-- 
sean-freebsd@farley.org



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