Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:12:17 -0600 From: Barry Pederson <barryp@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Persistant config data for ports? Message-ID: <3C80F9E1.2010004@yahoo.com> References: <20020301152122.GC11627@teddy.fas.com>
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stan wrote: > I've started using cvsup, and portupgrade to update my installed ports on > several machines on a regular bassis. > > This takes several hoyrs, or more, espically if I gotten a bit behind and > there are lots of ports to update. So I satrt this, and leave it running > unatended. > > Unfortunately, I usuall come back to find the system waiting patiently fro > an answer from me, as to a configuration choice. > > Given that those choices have already been mace (most of the time) it would > seem to me to be nice if there was some way for the system to have this > data stored in a persistentant fashion, so that I don't have to answer teh > same questiosn every time. In addition there are several ports that have > otional installation features that are turned on by port build time flags > passed to make. Yhes get built the default way, rahter than the way they > were before the upgrade. This also seems like a place where this persistant > data store would be useful. I agree..I was just updating PHP yesterday, and was thinking the same thing - sure would be nice if it would just build it the same way it was built previously (such as selecting IMAP, OpenLDAP, etc). Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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