Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:22:30 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" <sean-freebsd@farley.org> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ./options-descr file suggestion for ports Message-ID: <20070613101823.F71859@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <A2E1DABC-0F0E-475C-B282-0CC07C4278B5@khera.org> References: <200706090936.51775.david@vizion2000.net> <20070609203316.GC71246@voodoo.bawue.com> <20070611151636.GA16517@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <822946050706120826r75835defj2dbf76fc2ecfccb6@mail.gmail.com> <20070613093658.dk1r5iud8gssss0o@webmail.leidinger.net> <A2E1DABC-0F0E-475C-B282-0CC07C4278B5@khera.org>
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Jun 13, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> First there where no OPTIONS, then OPTIONS was introduced. If you >> feel annoyed by those ports which are not converted yet to OPTIONS >> (because nobody felt annoyed enough to convert them), feel free to >> submit patches for them. > > personally, I'm annoyed by ports that use OPTIONS because I cannot > then set them globally in my make.conf file (which is copied around to > all my servers). I have to ensure that the proper OPTIONS are set on > every machine on which I may build a port. > > Is it possible (and/or is anyone working on) a way to make the options > setting non-interactive and pull the settings from a config file > instead? I use ports-mgmt/portconf. It puts a hook into make.conf that reads it for port configuration. This allows make.conf to be different on each system while having a configuration file you can copy to each system. As for making non-interactive mode the default in ports.conf: *: BATCH Sean -- sean-freebsd@farley.org
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