port xyz: the grey screen with all the checkboxes is wrong and won't come back

[John Nielsen]

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Steve Franks wrote:
> so where, phyisically, on the disk, does the data from make config go
> then?  I looked in <port>/. after make clean, and it's as clean as
> fresh snow...

It goes in /var/db/ports

JN

> On 10/28/07, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:13:24AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> > > Obviously, 'make clean' doesn't reset the configure screen.  Don't
> > > know why.
> >
> > Because it is not designed to do that.
> >
> > > I recall there was a faster way to fix this than 'portsnap extract'
> > > but I'll be damned if I can remember, and the ports section of the
> > > handbook doesn't even mention configure dialogs...
> >
> > 'make rmconfig' should remove a previously set configuration.
> > 'make config' should display the configscreen again if it had already
> > been set before.
> >
> > These are described in the ports(7) manpage (which contains lots of
> > useful information regarding the ports system - not least the BUGS
> > section. :-))
> >
> > > I'd love to add a snippet to the handbook to cover this, but the last
> > > time I made an offer like that on doc at freebsd, it appears to have
> > > gone into dev/null...
> >
> > --
> > <Insert your favourite quote here.>
> > Erik Trulsson
> > ertr1013 at student.uu.se