From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 9 5: 3: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A5A37B419 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 05:02:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 16OIN9-0001kI-02; Wed, 09 Jan 2002 14:02:27 +0100 Received: from spirit.corecode.ath.cx (320050403952-0001@[217.224.171.65]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16OIMs-0jqUYSC; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:02:10 +0100 Received: from elevation.zuhause.stoert.net (elevation.zuhause.stoert.net [192.168.66.46]) by spirit.corecode.ath.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g09D29g03376; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:02:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from corecode@elevation.zuhause.stoert.net) Received: (from corecode@localhost) by elevation.zuhause.stoert.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g09D29E00314; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:02:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from corecode) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:02:05 +0100 From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" To: Johann Visagie Cc: tonym@biolateral.com.au, admin@govital.net, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: portupgrade-20020103 Message-Id: <20020109140205.29f0832c.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20020109101016.GD2775@fling.sanbi.ac.za> References: <3C3A9C41.C16CF8BA@govital.net> <200201080906.g08968p80613@yellow.biolateral.com.au> <20020109101016.GD2775@fling.sanbi.ac.za> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6claws43 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=.N_K6gMIRzi7Ak4" X-Sender: 320050403952-0001@t-dialin.net 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 --=.N_K6gMIRzi7Ak4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:10:16 +0200 Johann Visagie wrote: > Tony Maher on 2002-01-08 (Tue) at 20:06:08 +1100: > > > > > while, ever since I started using the portupgrade program. It > > > would be nice if the ports sub system would remember what command > > > line options were used when a port has been built. Or maybe > > > having the option of > > > > For portupgrade it already exists: > > > [ snip ] > > > > But it would be nice if the ports system handled it intrinsically. > > What about the idea of a standard target for ports ("help"?) that > simply lists all the options which may be used when building that > port? if this stuff was handled by the ports.mk files a visual configuration screen could come up if BATCH is not defined. this is especially useful when dependencies with options get sucked into compilation... ah yes, when this feature would be enhanced a multi-package building could easily be achieved (and the options of these packages preserved for later update) cheerz corecode -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/ \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News --=.N_K6gMIRzi7Ak4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8PD9Qr5S+dk6z85oRAjkKAKCibOrRKpQFM2RIe1SBPo9oLEMfBgCaAteS Gg7DU+fzxEqGyl3XFee/oEw= =A71N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.N_K6gMIRzi7Ak4-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message