Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:49:22 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port xyz: the grey screen with all the checkboxes is wrong and won't come back Message-ID: <20071028174922.GA20079@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90710281041t6af4263do7876f1160ca07fcd@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90710281013j5bb07b3dx4c819a4d51438d9a@mail.gmail.com> <20071028172445.GA19703@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <539c60b90710281041t6af4263do7876f1160ca07fcd@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:41:23AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > so where, phyisically, on the disk, does the data from make config go > then? I looked in <port>/. after make clean, and it's as clean as > fresh snow... /var/db/ports/ > > Steve > > On 10/28/07, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:13:24AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > > Obviously, 'make clean' doesn't reset the configure screen. Don't know why. > > > > Because it is not designed to do that. > > > > > > > > I recall there was a faster way to fix this than 'portsnap extract' > > > but I'll be damned if I can remember, and the ports section of the > > > handbook doesn't even mention configure dialogs... > > > > 'make rmconfig' should remove a previously set configuration. > > 'make config' should display the configscreen again if it had already been > > set before. > > > > These are described in the ports(7) manpage (which contains lots of useful > > information regarding the ports system - not least the BUGS section. :-)) > > > > > > > > I'd love to add a snippet to the handbook to cover this, but the last > > > time I made an offer like that on doc@freebsd, it appears to have gone > > > into dev/null... > > > > > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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