From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 06:21:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FD516A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:21:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2out.barnet.com.au (mail2out.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD6A43D5F for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:21:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail2out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 27) id 2D1F2707455; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:21:12 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <41BE86580000D41423F243@BarNet> Received: from mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (mail2.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) Authority" (verified OK)) by mail2.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D12707454; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:21:11 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (edwin-3.int.barnet.com.au [10.10.12.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570DB707453; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:21:11 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2C03B613F; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:21:10 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:21:10 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Chris Dillon Message-ID: <20041214062110.GF1435@k7.mavetju> References: <20041213221520.V10154@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <20041214043729.GE1435@k7.mavetju> <20041213235917.I10154@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041213235917.I10154@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Adding config-recursive to bsd.port.mk X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:21:14 -0000 On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:15:10AM -0600, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > >On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:24:38PM -0600, Chris Dillon wrote: > >> > >>I got tired of starting long port builds with lots of dependances > >>(KDE, etc.) and having many of the ports stop the whole build > >>process to ask me what config options I wanted. So, I thought what > >>if I could easily pre-config all of the dependancies? Here is the > >>result, pretty much cut & paste from the fetch-recursive bits. > >>Patch attached, but if it doesn't come through it is available > >>here: > > > >Shouldn't it only do this for ports which aren't installed yet? > > What harm might come if the port is already installed and we create a > new config file for it? All I can think of is that some of the > options you thought you were going to get may not be there when it is > all done since the port was already built, but it shouldn't break > anything. At worst, you would have to re-install those ports which > were already installed to affect the changes you made to the config. > You would have had to do that anyway if it were necessary, even > without running this. This just gives you an easy way to run 'make > config' on all the dependancies of a particular port. There would be no harm, but it is strange to exchange one annoying behaviour with another one: instead of having your build interrupted to config a every new port, you have to re-config every port again. And again. And again. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/