From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 01:36:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56DC106566C; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 01:36:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (mail1.sourcehosting.net [74.205.51.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3F308FC08; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 01:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 24-181-237-39.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([24.181.237.39] helo=Gregory-Larkins-iMac.local) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.73 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SbihM-000CtO-Hg; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:36:43 -0400 Received: from Gregory-Larkins-iMac.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Gregory-Larkins-iMac.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 399BE12BF5DE; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:36:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FCD62A3.5010301@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:36:35 -0400 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith References: <20120603160518.GA6631@slackbox.erewhon.net> <4FCBAA72.7020103@FreeBSD.org> <20120603191003.GA8028@slackbox.erewhon.net> <20120604183234.GC14162@slackbox.erewhon.net> <4FCD1417.4060000@FreeBSD.org> <20120604212543.GA19182@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20120604212543.GA19182@slackbox.erewhon.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 24.181.237.39 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glarkin@FreeBSD.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail1.sourcehosting.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RDNS_DYNAMIC,SARE_ADLTSUB4,TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail1.sourcehosting.net) Cc: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: optionsng ignores /var/db/ports//options X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:36:43 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/4/12 5:25 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 04:01:27PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: >>> Well, it was a bug, but not particularly in showconfig alone, >>> see below. >>> >>>>> If not, then something odd is happening, as your port >>>>> looks perfectly OK to me. Are you using a ports tree >>>>> updated within about the last 48 hours or so? I know there >>>>> were some bug fixes went in to all FOO_DESC lines to >>>>> contain (brackets) and other syntactically significant >>>>> characters. >>>> >>>> I updated my ports tree this afternoon. The really weird >>>> thing is that I tested 'make config' in several other ports >>>> where it worked fine... >>>> >>>>> PS. Asking this on freebsd-ports@... might be a good idea. >>> >>> The bad news is that it was a bug in the ports system. It >>> turned out that because of the way the unique name of the port >>> was set (which happens twice), the options file is not read >>> from the same directory that it is written to! Thanks to >>> Baptiste Daroussin for clueing me in in this. I've gained a new >>> respect for the people maintaining the ports infrastructure. >>> :-) It's kind of amazing it works as well as it does. >>> >>> The good news is that there are several workarounds. For >>> future reference, the workaround that I ended up using was to >>> set the following variable in the port makefile: >>> >>> OPTIONSFILE= ${PORT_DBDIR}/py27-${PORTNAME}/options >>> >>> >>> Roland >> >> Hi Roland, >> >> I don't think you want to hardcode the "py27-" in the variable >> assignment, since it ties the filename to a specific version of >> Python. Check PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX, and it should adjust itself >> as the Python version changes. > > Actually, if I understood correctly, the fact that > PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX _changes_ from py- to py27- in different parts > of the included .mk files is what causes the problem in the first > place. So I did this on purpose. > > Roland Hi Roland, Ok, I should have read the previous thread emails more closely. At any rate, putting a specific Python version into the name of the OPTIONSFILE seems a bit confusing. Could you achieve the same outcome by putting "py-" instead of "py27-" in the name? Regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/NYqIACgkQ0sRouByUApBeJACgyuHOEkwVWIdVq31XkLtd89AQ GWsAoLzZpiKWOAe2u8sEWEM/kGvvnmT+ =JKWu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----