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Date:      Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:40:30 -0800
From:      David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
To:        Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: build ports without X -- make.conf
Message-ID:  <35c231bf0511071040p5d47ef02td66f7596a200311b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <436F9E0F.5040800@alphaque.com>
References:  <20051107131443.E26113@prime.gushi.org> <436F9E0F.5040800@alphaque.com>

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On 11/7/05, Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/08/05 02:16 Dan Mahoney, System Admin said the following:
> > For some reason this is gone in 5.x -- what's the appropriate way to do
> > this now (since WITHOUT_X11 still worked on a couple ports I've tried.)
>
> am also not sure if this is related, but an install of 6.0-RELEASE follow=
ed
> by a cvsup of RELENG_6 yesterday didnt have an /etc/make.conf. is this an
> omission or is this by design ?

That's by design. The install stores a default make.conf file in
/etc/defaults/make.conf . Local changes should go in a new file named
/etc/make.conf . The idea being that if you upgrade later, the upgrade
will modify /etc/defaults/make.conf leaving your local changes intact.
(Of course there's no guarantee that the local changes will still work
after an upgrade, but at least they won't be overwritten.)

There are a number of files in /etc/defaults -- it's worth checking that ou=
t.



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