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Date:      Tue, 9 May 2006 16:50:45 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports structure -- problem with pkgtools.conf
Message-ID:  <p06230927c086afe16971@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0605090831o4e8efbaarf53ca844bb348758@mail.gmail.com>
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At 10:31 AM -0500 5/9/06, Scot Hetzel wrote:
>
>The problem with pkgtools.conf (and all the other port
>management tools) is that it only works for the port
>that you are currently building.  If that port has
>dependancies, the settings in pkgtools.conf for the
>dependancies are not applied to the dependent port.
>Instead you need to build the dependent ports first.
>
>Where as putting the variable into make.conf, will
>allow the dependent port to always build with that
>setting.

Hmm.

I don't think I have been bitten by this, but then I
usually do a 'portupgrade -Rr -n' check on whatever I
want to build, so I can see what dependencies need to
be rebuilt first.  Is this really a problem that other
people have hit frequently?

Seems to me I have hit occasions where portupgrade
did not seem to catch some dependency, but that
dependency was in fact built when I went to build
my original target-port.  But I forget in what
circumstances that has come up.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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