port config questions

Chris chris at childeric.freeserve.co.uk
Mon Oct 17 14:13:33 PDT 2005


Hi

Q1 To celebrate upgrading my desktop box to 6.0RC1 I am also upgrading 
all my ports with portmanager. Before I ran portmanager I deleted all my 
distfiles and ran portupgrade -arRfF to fetch a brand new set (I had far 
too many stale ones). I notice that for example all the mplayer skins 
distfiles have been downloaded despite /var/db/ports/mplayer/options 
saying WITHOUT_SKIN_...=true for most of them. Is there some way to make 
portupgrade respect config files in /var/db/ports/?

Q2 Can I tell portupgrade to go through the configs of all the ports it 
is going to upgrade so that I can set them all in one go and then let 
portupgrade (or portmanager) get on with things unattended? If not would 
this be a useful addition to portupgrade functionality? I would like to 
include options that are in Makefiles as well as 'make config' menus.

Thanks

btw thank you to the author of portmanager, it's wonderful (and I love 
the way it works by making excuses not to do things. :-D)

Chris


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