Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:35:19 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Messages while (re)installing portupgrade Message-ID: <81783.1381361719@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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Because I just switched from ruby1.8 to ruby1.9 I've had to
rebuild and reinstall my ports-mgmt/portupgrade port. That all
went well, but I got some messages at the end of the re-install
process that I've never noticed before, and they are all rather
befuddling to me:
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Fill ALT_PKGDEP section in pkgtools.conf file for portupgrade to be
aware of alternative dependencies you use.
E.g.
ALT_PKGDEP = {
# Use the -nox11 port when another port depends on category/portexample
'category/portexample' => 'category/portexample-nox11',
}
Note also, portupgrade knows nothing about how to handle ports with
different suffixes (E.g. -nox11). So you should explicitly define
variables (E.g. WITHOUT_X11=yes) for the ports in /etc/make.conf or
pkgtools.conf (MAKE_ARGS section) files.
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I have no idea what any of the above means. Should I be at all concerned?
Where exactly is this alleged "pkgtools.conf" file. I looked in /etc.
It ain't there. I've never even heard of it until today.
I grok the general idea that there may be a file someplace (called
"pkgtools.conf") wherein one may explicitly override various otherwise
hardwired inter-port dependencies, but what has that got to do with
me?
I _do_ use X, so none of the rest of this stuff seems the least bit
relevant to anything I am doing. Am I perhaps mistaken?
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