How do I reset a port's options

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Mon Aug 29 23:19:37 GMT 2005


On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:40:04 +0200
Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:29:34PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > I've tried to google for this, but I'm not entering the magic
> > combination of words.  When I go to install some ports, I'm
> > presented with an ncurses screen that let's me toggle options.
> > 
> > If I select some options and the build fails, how can I "reset" the
> > port so that I'm presented with the options again?
> 
> It is often better to read the documentation (in this case the
> ports(7) manpage) than to use Google.
> 
> You can either use 'make config' to set the options again (with your
> old choices as default values) or 'make rmconfig' to delete the old
> selections.
> 
> 

Thanks to all.

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Trey
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