From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 23:01:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882DF106567B for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:01:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f176.google.com (mail-gx0-f176.google.com [209.85.217.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29CE18FC12 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so3941603gxk.19 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:01:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:cc:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=apbw1VHaW9JlkLwmD7OA3CLro/YygHk/l+szeg/kHcE=; b=MWcr6kXlRPS7g00jK9zdv8gaGWUj27LahYAByyzkW5lufQbLgaM6r7kygP9tejm2MA LjbmjZl37Zc4lJfBTU5ifoRhoHNioUyjfzr2p1I/xwycfbE5uAp9NVMcRecOqFII7+x8 Bu2wilEbAr6uyOlc4IqRaPqUR2N16KfOXRNNE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:cc :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=IwMUJDaCvsvtdjDxpFskXWlYEMzuhZhFqaH6DR+dqjCvtN4E3BeahHbYtenMmg10nl AVw6TVAz7+7JDholA5XiFumGfd5SOuFyW7O8vi75l5wfCU0UojI87AIXK5Hm6JgmDXcm jb1lMxRFw4xVj0DdCeWmWD7PK9l6MtBFm+uI8= Received: by 10.90.71.15 with SMTP id t15mr51722aga.17.1235170909205; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ([190.177.198.154]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm2113646agc.33.2009.02.20.15.01.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:01:48 -0800 (PST) From: Gonzalo Nemmi To: Pieter Donche Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:01:45 -0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902202101.45303.gnemmi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Options X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:01:50 -0000 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// > # make > hoping to see the menu again, but it doesn't show any menu, but says: > ===> Found saved configuration for > > 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