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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:32:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, ports@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports.conf
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010823143235.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010824001737.B1714@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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On 23-Aug-01 Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:59:41PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:07:29PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:
>> > This ports.conf should probably maintained somewhere in the ports/ tree
>> > instead.
>> 
>> I disagree.  I use a common NFS mounted /usr/ports to build stuff, but
>> each machine is different.  On some I have the commercial Motif, on
>> others I want NOPORTSDOC=true to save space.
> 
> I do believe this does not conflict with what Alex wrote.
> I think he meant 'maintained in the ports/ tree' just as make.conf
> is 'maintained in the src/ tree', that is, there is a src/etc/make.conf
> file with evolving defaults.  Yes, ports.conf should probably live
> in /etc or some such place, but I, too, think that it should be
> maintained in the ports tree, quite possibly in ports/Mk/.

Erm, how does it get installed then? :)  I think what you want is this perhaps:

/usr/ports/Mk/ports.conf
/etc/ports.conf

instead of

/etc/defaults/ports.conf
/etc/ports.conf

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