Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:59:03 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st> Cc: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, Mathias Picker <mathiasp@mathiaspicker.net>, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removing documentation Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ5YQ=Z3xzpZN48sivRw84NdZmyhD2AmGrU9%2BQmWeyeSkA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56BBAFB7.9080509@marino.st> References: <56B754A8.3030605@marino.st> <20160208064305.GB63030@server.rulingia.com> <56B8454F.8060605@marino.st> <1454923852.4807.19.camel@mathiaspicker.net> <56B8662A.2050502@marino.st> <CAN6yY1tuKNjJEfmhN9u8j6MfFKz=wvSwyX%2BcOiBPwnOL7PNA3Q@mail.gmail.com> <56BBAFB7.9080509@marino.st>
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:46 PM, John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st> wrote: > On 2/10/2016 10:15 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > The stale configuration file issue has me a bit confused. The man page > > does not make it clear just what makes a config "stale". All of my port= s > > are up to date as of 11:00 UTC this morning. As far as I know, all of > > the configs are "current", although the actual config run may have been > > for a much older version. "synth status shows 46 cases. I looked at one > > (sysutils/tmux) and the options listed by "make showconfig" are no > > different from those in the current Makefile, so I don't understand why > > they are stale. > > Stale isn't the right word. You could use "invalid" or "obsolete" > instead. The saved configuration does not match the current port. > > Imagine a month ago you run "make config". It saves the status of the 4 > options on this imaginary port. Now imagine any of the following > happening to the port. > > A) An option is added > B) An option is removed > C) An option default changed. > D) Any other option configuration changed. > > Now the month-old saved configuration doesn't match the port. See the > problem? > > Synth is the *only* tool that detects this. =E2=80=8Bportmaster used to do this; was this option removed? It was one o= f the nicer features of portmaster and really came in handy in the past. Haven't used portmaster since 9.something when pkg really became useful and I stopped building anything from source, so maybe this feature was removed?= =E2=80=8B --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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