Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:39:12 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which ports store/use OPTIONS (/var/db/ports/portname/options)? Message-ID: <20060228103912.GA166@pentarou.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20060228083210.GI13185@goofy.cultdeadsheep.org> References: <867j7gd8kw.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> <20060228083210.GI13185@goofy.cultdeadsheep.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:32:10AM +0100, Clement Laforet wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:18:07PM -0500, Chris Shenton wrote:
> > Other ports don't, like www/apache22. This is annoying because I have
> > to remember when I rebuild it, and portupgrade won't get my needed
> > tweaks like WITH_PROXY_MODULES.
> >
> > For apache22 I've set my needed tweaks in /etc/make.conf but that
> > doesn't seem the best place, especially since the config names are so
> > generic, like WITH_SSL_MODULES.
>
> www/apache2* ports can't be converted to OPTIONS since many build time
> options are not simple defines.
>
> clem
Likewise, www/cgiwrap can't be fully converted to OPTIONS for this
reason (i.e. supporting a custom logfile location), and the same for
www/suphp.
Personally, I've never liked OPTIONS and /var/db/ports. I consider it
"another directory I have to worry about", especially if the port
author changes some of the OPTIONS names between port revisions ("Eh?
Why is this port building with the wrong settings... *30 minutes later*
Oh, hrm..."). I'm also not very fond of curses, especially when it
comes to dealing with it over a serial console that lacks proper
terminal support.
Additionally, there needs to be dialog --inputbox support for OPTIONS
to become useful.
I'd rather see both WITH_* and OPTIONS done away with altogether, and
the entire framework replaced with a tree-based configuration file.
Actually, this would apply to make.conf. Something remotely like:
# Affects both system/kernel and ports
IPV6 = no
X11 = no
# ports tree only
ports {
devel/gettext {
EXAMPLES = no
HTMLMAN = no
}
www/apache20 {
KQUEUE_SUPPORT = yes
}
www/suphp {
CHECKPATH = no
LOGFILE = /var/log/suphp.log
}
}
Some people simply stick all of the WITH_* tweaks into make.conf, which
I disagree with, since it clutters the file and applies to all ports
(rather than each individual port).
But that's for another discussion...
--
| Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Making life hard for others since 1977. |
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060228103912.GA166>