From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 2 8:12: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from msn166-109.med.und.nodak.edu (msn166-109.med.und.NoDak.edu [134.129.166.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9261C37B416 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:11:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from root by msn166-109.med.und.nodak.edu with virusscan (Exim 3.22 #2) id 16hC74-000PgL-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:11:58 -0600 Received: from accord.med.und.nodak.edu ([134.129.166.13] helo=yahoo.com) by msn166-109.med.und.nodak.edu with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.22 #2) id 16hC70-000Pg9-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:11:55 -0600 Message-ID: <3C80F9E1.2010004@yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:12:17 -0600 From: Barry Pederson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Persistant config data for ports? References: <20020301152122.GC11627@teddy.fas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-98.0 required=5.0 tests=SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK,A_FROM_IN_AUTO_WLIST,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD version=2.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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