Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:21:10 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH: Adding config-recursive to bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <20041214062110.GF1435@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20041213235917.I10154@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> References: <20041213221520.V10154@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <20041214043729.GE1435@k7.mavetju> <20041213235917.I10154@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:15:10AM -0600, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > >On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:24:38PM -0600, Chris Dillon wrote: > >> > >>I got tired of starting long port builds with lots of dependances > >>(KDE, etc.) and having many of the ports stop the whole build > >>process to ask me what config options I wanted. So, I thought what > >>if I could easily pre-config all of the dependancies? Here is the > >>result, pretty much cut & paste from the fetch-recursive bits. > >>Patch attached, but if it doesn't come through it is available > >>here: > > > >Shouldn't it only do this for ports which aren't installed yet? > > What harm might come if the port is already installed and we create a > new config file for it? All I can think of is that some of the > options you thought you were going to get may not be there when it is > all done since the port was already built, but it shouldn't break > anything. At worst, you would have to re-install those ports which > were already installed to affect the changes you made to the config. > You would have had to do that anyway if it were necessary, even > without running this. This just gives you an easy way to run 'make > config' on all the dependancies of a particular port. There would be no harm, but it is strange to exchange one annoying behaviour with another one: instead of having your build interrupted to config a every new port, you have to re-config every port again. And again. And again. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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