Overriding OPTIONS.

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Monday, 6. December 2004 01:54, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 01:49:23AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Monday, 6. December 2004 01:29, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> > > I've not had to do this yet but I was wondering what happens when a
> > > port defines new OPTIONS choices... is there some nice way to override
> > > the usage of the options file?
> >
> > To change your saved options, run 'make config' in the portdir.
>
> Yes, I understand this, but what if I want to force a user to run make
> config because there are new OPTIONS?

I guess you could experiment with overriding or removing _OPTIONSFILE, but I 
don't think it is a good idea to force re-displaying the menu, you're bound 
to annoy users who didn't expect the menu to popup again during portupgrade. 
Just announce the new options in ports/UPDATING.

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