Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:40:42 +1100 From: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> To: Craig Boston <craig@meoqu.gank.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port make options Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.2.20021219153720.034324c0@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <1040271889.385.4.camel@aldaris2.auir.gank.org> References: <1040271178.98088.22.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net> <5.1.1.6.2.20021219145016.0343bae0@127.0.0.1> <1040271178.98088.22.camel@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net>
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At 15:24 19/12/2002, Craig Boston sent this up the stick: >Sorry for jumping in, this is just a minor pet peeve of mine. I use >MAKE_ARGS a lot for portupgrade, but what about for the ones with the >stupid dialog boxes? (samba, mod_php4, etc) > >Many of them assume defaults when BATCH is set and are difficult (need a >lot of \\\") or sometimes even impossible to override with environment >variables. > >I have no problem with being user-friendly, but IMHO when these are put >in the port should also be automation-friendly and allow itself to be >configured with simple environment variables. Hmm ... this is exactly what I was trying to accomplish ... is BATCH something that can be tweaked by the user? cheer,s Rob >On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 22:12, Andrew Thomson wrote: > > sure is.. > > > > check out /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf > > > > MAKE_ARGS section.. -- BE ALERT!!!! (The world needs more lerts ...) This is random quote 305 of a collection of 1269 Distance from the centre of the brewing universe: [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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