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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:26:41 -0400
From:      Jim Trigg <jtrigg@spamcop.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Lost portupgrade functionality building INDEX
Message-ID:  <20040421012641.GA36748@spamcop.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040420222517.GA68354@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20040420210902.GA35257@spamcop.net> <20040420222517.GA68354@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:25:17PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:09:02PM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote:
> > While I understand the reasoning behind making portsdb -U use "make
> > index" behind the scenes, it kills a bit of functionality.  portsdb -U
> > no longer honors pkgtools.conf, so options set there will not be
> > reflected in the dependencies shown in INDEX.  If I knew ruby, I'd try
> > to write a new portsdb -U function, but I don't.  Is there any way we
> > can get this functionality back while maintaining compatibility with
> > make index in other ways?
> 
> Set your config options in make.conf instead of pkgtools.conf.

That's what I'm doing for the time being, but it loses the port-by-port
granularity.  I can't, for instance, build one port with MySQL support,
another with PostgreSQL support, and another which could support either
with neither.

Jim
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