> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:32:12AM -0700, Kris Kennaway typed: >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:26:49AM -0700, Zoltan Frombach wrote: >> >> > >You can omit step 8 by editing /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. e.g. >> > > >> > > MAKE_ARGS = { >> > > 'lang/perl5.8' => 'WITH_THREADS=yes', >> > > } >> > >> > In fact, I do have those compile options set in my >> > /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf file. But are you sure that portupgrade >> > will >> > use those even when called with the -P flag ( eg: portupgrade -af -P )? >> >> Such environment variables have no effect on pkg_add (i.e. portupgrade >> -P), because the package has already been compiled and its build >> options were set at that time. > > Yes. Wouldn't it be a nice feature for "portupgrade -P" to install the > port > instead of the package if any non-defaults were defined in pkgtools.conf? > > (I guess now's the time for me to learn some ruby) If you really want to add this to portupgrade, it should be optional, though. Because someone might have a broken compiler or something and just wants to install a binary package quickly. In that case it should be possible to force a binary package installation regardless of what's inside the pkgtools.conf file. Don't you agree?Received on Wed Oct 27 2004 - 17:35:02 UTC
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