From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Dec 11 0:31: 4 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 DB5F037B401 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:31:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from totem.fix.no (totem.fix.no [80.91.32.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643D743EC2 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anders@totem.fix.no) Received: by totem.fix.no (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D5B3F2025D; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:31:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:31:45 +0100 From: Anders Nordby To: George Hartzell Cc: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: Is there a standard for "knob" documentation? Message-ID: <20021211083145.GA39213@totem.fix.no> References: <15862.16850.579190.813699@rosebud.alerce.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15862.16850.579190.813699@rosebud.alerce.com> X-PGP-Key: http://anders.fix.no/pgp/ X-PGP-Key-FingerPrint: 1E0F C53C D8DF 6A8F EAAD 19C5 D12A BC9F 0083 5956 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 Hi, On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:34:42AM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > Is there a standard place for a port to document the various build, > install, and/or package-time KNOBS that they support/require? Unfortunately, no. > 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? No. There is some info on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/x1291.html#AEN1499, though. Which is not a place I would expect users to go looking. I've often thought about adopting the OpenBSD flavor scheme. Which would help/sort out this. See http://www.openbsd.org/porting/diffs.html for some more information, under "Flavors". Cheers, -- Anders. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message