Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:01:45 -0200 From: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> To: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Options Message-ID: <200902202101.45303.gnemmi@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0902202212310.7054@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0902202212310.7054@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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On Friday 20 February 2009 7:24:45 pm Pieter Donche wrote: > At the first install of a package via the ports collection (cd > /usr/ports/../..; make install clean), if the package provides > configuration options, you can check these on a menu screen, > or accept all the defaults. > > If later on, you want to know what the set of the options were when you > installed a port, how to find that out? I tried > # cd /usr/ports/<categoryname>/<portname> > # make > hoping to see the menu again, but it doesn't show any menu, but says: > ===> Found saved configuration for <portname-version> > > Where is that saved configuration kept ?? Under /var/db/ports/.../ in a file named "options" [gonzalo@inferna ~]% more /var/db/ports/hplip/options # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. # No user-servicable parts inside! # Options for hplip-2.8.2_2 _OPTIONS_READ=hplip-2.8.2_2 WITH_GUI=true [gonzalo@inferna ~]% > How to get a menu displayed again so you can see and check the options > you want? "make config" or "make rmconfig" as the other posters told you, or just go ahead and manually delete rm -f the options file prior to the "make install clean" Regards -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi
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