From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Aug 23 14:32:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (foo.lab.nuxi.com [66.123.5.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0037C37B407; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:32:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7NLWaa02088; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:32:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010824001737.B1714@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:32:35 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: ports.conf Cc: Alexander Langer , ports@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-Aug-01 Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:59:41PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:07:29PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: >> > This ports.conf should probably maintained somewhere in the ports/ tree >> > instead. >> >> I disagree. I use a common NFS mounted /usr/ports to build stuff, but >> each machine is different. On some I have the commercial Motif, on >> others I want NOPORTSDOC=true to save space. > > I do believe this does not conflict with what Alex wrote. > I think he meant 'maintained in the ports/ tree' just as make.conf > is 'maintained in the src/ tree', that is, there is a src/etc/make.conf > file with evolving defaults. Yes, ports.conf should probably live > in /etc or some such place, but I, too, think that it should be > maintained in the ports tree, quite possibly in ports/Mk/. Erm, how does it get installed then? :) I think what you want is this perhaps: /usr/ports/Mk/ports.conf /etc/ports.conf instead of /etc/defaults/ports.conf /etc/ports.conf -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message