5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:51:52PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:07:45PM +0300, Todorov @ Paladin wrote:
> >> Also - why portupgrade is not always aware of
> >> previously chosen options for a port build?
> >>
> > It depends.  If options are OPTIONS (in the ports sense), they
> > are saved and independent of portupgrade.  If options are
> > makefile options specified in pkgtools.conf, they are only
> > taken into accont if the port is (re)build explicitly; they
> > are not taken into account if a port is (re)built as a
> > dependency of another port.  In plain text: if port B has
> > options in pkgtools.conf, and port A has B as its dependency,
> > and you portinstall/portupgrade A, B will be built (if needs
> > be) without pkgtools.conf options.  Be careful.
> 
> sysutils/portconf does not have that limitation. If you specify flags using
> that method, they will always be used.
> 
True.  The implementation is also smart -- it doesn't spam make(1)
environment when not necessary.  Thanks!


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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