From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 16:11:40 2010 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 4A8481065672 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:11:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@vindaloo.com) Received: from corellia.vindaloo.com (corellia.vindaloo.com [64.51.148.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205A48FC19 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:11:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kessel.vindaloo.com (kessel.vindaloo.com [172.24.145.71]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by corellia.vindaloo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD185D0D; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:11:39 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Sean Hilton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:11:38 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <143FF63D-E6F7-4675-9BA4-31912A49E753@vindaloo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: Subject: Ports/packages: PKGNAMESUFFIX variable 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: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:11:40 -0000 Is is considered okay for end users of the ports system to use the = PKGNAMESUFFIX variable? I need to label the python 2.6 port that I've = build as not having threads. Python with threads interferes with the = mod_python and apache in the default configuration. I did the following: # cd /usr/ports/lang/python2.6; make=20 ... # env PKGNAMESUFFIX=3D"-nothreads" make install package clean Everything seemed to work ok but I want to make sure I'm not creating = problems for myself in the future. -- Chris = --------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- "There will be an answer, Let it = be." = chris@vindaloo.com