From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Aug 22 0:29:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B992337B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:29:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com (infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com [196.25.137.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D804C43E65 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com) Received: (qmail 99915 invoked by uid 0); 22 Aug 2002 07:29:33 -0000 Received: from gerund.futureperfectcorporation.com (196.25.137.65) by infinitive.futureperfectcorporation.com with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 22 Aug 2002 07:29:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 66048 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Aug 2002 07:31:06 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:31:06 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Andy Sparrow Cc: Ken McGlothlen , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Automated Port Rebuilding (was Re: using "dialog" in ports is for bitches) Message-ID: <20020822073106.GA65851@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <86k7mmo03y.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> <20020821204547.A58C7477@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020821204547.A58C7477@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: iTouch Technical and Architectural Services X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ 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 2002-08-21 (16:45), Andy Sparrow wrote: > AFAIK, the two mechanisms (if there's more, please let me know) are as > follows: > > i) Frobbing stuff into /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf > > ii) Frobbing stuff into ${PORT}/Makefile.local > > I happen to prefer the latter approach, as I'd generally prefer that > port options not be global, e.g. I might prefer to build some ports > with, and some without, the same options. I'm rather partial to penv (/usr/ports/sysutils/penv). It's also probably the easiest way to store long-term customisations, and has a really easy API for updating (ie, in a graphical ports customisor, something I'd be interested to see/rewrite). Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message