Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:25:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, arch@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ports.conf Message-ID: <XFMail.010830112524.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010829223937.Q56784@bsd.havk.org>
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On 30-Aug-01 Steve Price wrote: > 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'? In theory it is if you mergemaster or do something else to update /etc with each world, so yes. > -steve -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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