Passing make options to portmanager

Dimitris Tsamis dtsam at cc.ece.ntua.gr
Sat Dec 17 12:14:17 PST 2005


RW wrote:

>On Saturday 17 December 2005 17:54, Dimitris Tsamis wrote:
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>>I prefer to use pkgtools.conf because from what I understand it is a
>>system file, whereas pm-020.conf is only for portmanager
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>This is incorrect.  
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>pkgtools.conf is the configuration file for portupgrade and the other 
>package-tools installed by the portupgrade port.  Portmanager has recently 
>aquired the ability to read  pkgtools.conf, but it is not a system file, and 
>it is not read by the ports system if you use the make targets directly. 
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Ok, the name pkgtools is misleading - I thought it refered to pkg_add
and family.


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