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Date:      Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:23:14 +0200
From:      Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>
To:        Ernst de Haan <ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com>, Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: force portupgrade to build port even with -P ?
Message-ID:  <41370000.1065619394@rambutan.pingpong.net>
In-Reply-To: <200310081519.43302.ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com>
References:  <35160000.1065617551@rambutan.pingpong.net> <200310081519.43302.ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com>

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Hi,

Well, what I really want is to use pre-built packages for most ports (my 
CPUs are a bit tired), but for a few I need extra arguments, so I want to 
force portupgrade to always use the port, never use a pre-built package, 
for these ports.

/Palle

--On onsdag, oktober 08, 2003 15.19.43 +0200 Ernst de Haan 
<ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com> wrote:

> Palle,
>
> What about adding these properties you want to set to /etc/make.conf?
>
> For example, you could add:
>
> A4=yes
> PAPERSIZE=a4
>
> Ernst
>
>
> On woensdag 8 oktober 2003 14:52, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I use portupgrade an I love it. Thanks a lot!
>>
>> A question: I usually do portupgrade -PR to upgrade stuff, and the
>> packages are fetched from bento or som ftp server. But, for some
>> packages, I have to use the port, because I have extra options set in
>> MAKE_ARGS, like 'print/*' => 'A4=yes -DA4 PAPERSIZE=a4' for example. If I
>> update som port with -PR, and this port depends on ghostscript, for
>> example, ghostscript will be installed from a package, naturally built
>> without these MAKE_ARGS. My dream would be a setting in pkgtools.conf
>> where I set something like
>> `ALWAYS_USE_PORT' for certain ports that shall never use a package built
>> off-site. Can this be done?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Palle
>>
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