disappeared options dialog when installing ports

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-05-11 10:56, Carsten Fuchs <crstn_fuchs at yahoo.de> wrote:
> I have a (simple) question about installing from the ports coll. The
> 1st time I issued `make install`in /usr/ports/www/firefox it showed a
> configuration menu where I could select things like xfs. I disabled
> this xfs option. Now if I want to install Firefox again it won't show
> me this configuration dialog anymore. I tried `make deinstall` and
> `make reinstall`- that wouldn't help. I even tried to delete the
> firefox ports directory and did a cvsup - but that dialog didn't show
> up.

These options are saved in /var/db/ports/XXX where XXX is the name of
the port (without a version number).  If you look on my own workstation
at work, this directory includes:

    orion:/home/keramida$ ls -l /var/db/ports
    total 36
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Nov  4  2004 boehm-gc/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Oct  8  2004 firefox/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 May 10 14:38 gaim/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Jul  6  2004 gettext/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Dec  6 15:57 gnuplot/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Jul 28  2004 libxml2/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Jul  6  2004 libxslt/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Jul  7  2004 mozilla/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Jul  6  2004 python/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Mar 21 14:56 samba3/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Apr  3 16:20 sdl/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Jul  6  2004 teTeX/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Oct 26  2004 teTeX-texmf/
    drwxrwxr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Oct 11  2004 windowmaker/
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 512 Feb 22 17:31 xfig/
    orion:/home/keramida$

> How can I set these installation options once I already installed a
> port. Where are these options saved on the harddrive? Will I have to
> run the configure script by hand?

By removing /var/db/ports/firefox.  Running the following as root before
you attempt to reinstall firefox should be all it takes:

	# cd /var/db/ports
	# rm -fr firefox

Regards,
Giorgos