From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 29 20:39:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF57337B408; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@havk.org) Received: from bsd.havk.org (user-24-214-56-224.knology.net [24.214.56.224]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7U3dcS20189; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:39:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bsd.havk.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 37FEE1A85D; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:39:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:39:37 -0500 From: Steve Price To: John Baldwin Cc: Maxim Sobolev , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Langer Subject: Re: ports.conf Message-ID: <20010829223937.Q56784@bsd.havk.org> References: <3B8CDC38.EC1EE32C@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:28:41PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:28:41PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > Also, ports/Mk/ports.conf can easily just be a default file with everything > commented out that doesn't even get included. Rather, if a user wants to > customize, they create a /etc/ports.conf with teh appropriate knobs set, and > bsd.port.mk just includes /etc/ports.conf. The reason for putting the default > ports.conf in ports/Mk (or ports/defaults?) instead of /usr/share/examples or > some such is the same reason the ports makefiles are in ports/Mk and not > /usr/share/mk: it needs to be in sync with the ports tree. Like /etc/defaults/make.conf is always in sync with 'make world'? -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message