Ports config location

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Sep 17 17:18:07 PDT 2004


Skylar Thompson <skylar at cs.earlham.edu> wrote:

> I'm having some trouble with deleting an old ports configuration file. I'm
> trying to build the new PHP 4.3.8 (with the new modular config setup), and
> made a mistake in setting it up. I want to be able to pull up the
> curses-based config screen, but not even deleting the entire ports tree and
> pulling it down again solves that; I get the some setup every time, and it
> proceeds with the build without prompting me. How do I get it to prompt me
> again for configuration? 

cd /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions && make config && \
make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes install

... a little more complicated than usual for the ports sytem ...

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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