Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:04:06 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: FreeBSD-ports@Freebsd.org Subject: Re: options Message-ID: <20050322090406.73b9c367.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <423F24C9.3070508@chuckr.org> References: <423F24C9.3070508@chuckr.org>
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:47:21 +0000
Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote:
> I've been looking for info that certain ports use to store options ... I
> have looked in the porters handbook andthe general handbook, no joy, and
> yet I know that there are some ports that do no store their options in
> cookie files, or in the environment. There's some sort of data base,
> something in /var/run, or something like that.
/var/db/ports
> Can I get pointed at that code? It doesn't seem to be documented
> anywhere I can find. The reason I care is, it doesn't seem to be
> cleaned out by 'make clean', and while I think that's VERY wrong, I need
> to know how to reset this options.
>From /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk :
# config - Configure options for this port (using ${DIALOG}).
# Automatically run prior to extract, patch, configure, build,
# install, and package.
# config-recursive
# - Configure options for this port for this port and all dependencies.
# showconfig - Display options config for this port.
# rmconfig - Remove the options config for this port.
# rmconfig-recursive
# - Remove the options config for this port and all dependencies.
> If necessary, I can go looing for an example, but I don't ahve one at
> hand right now.
Hope this is what you're looking for.
Best regards,
Randy
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