From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 10 11:36:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A0C37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from kestrel.alerce.com (kestrel.alerce.com [209.182.219.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129CA43EB2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:36:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (rosebud.lbl.gov [131.243.193.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by kestrel.alerce.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gBAJaRr4080129 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) X-Authentication-Warning: kestrel.alerce.com: Host rosebud.lbl.gov [131.243.193.115] claimed to be rosebud.alerce.com Received: from rosebud.alerce.com (rosebud.alerce.com [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=128) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBAJYht2005347 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:34:43 -0800 Received: (from hartzell@localhost) by rosebud.alerce.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gBAJYg5H005344; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:34:42 -0800 From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15862.16850.579190.813699@rosebud.alerce.com> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:34:42 -0800 To: freebsd-ports Subject: Is there a standard for "knob" documentation? X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 5) "Civil Service" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is there a standard place for a port to document the various build, install, and/or package-time KNOBS that they support/require? I've been confused at times as I build/install stuff, and have watched heads-ups go by about various ports (e.g. building uw-imap to support unencrypted connections, vnc and the WITHOUT_SERVER knob). I've taken to skimming all of the files in the port to see if anythings rings a bell, but long for something like a pkg-README file that would give me a heads-up. Is there a standard place that I should be looking? g. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message