freebsd-update and ports

[Simon L. B. Nielsen]

On 24 January 2013 19:55, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
>>
>>> For the 'make kernel' to force not using /etc/make.conf:
>>>
>>> make kernel __MAKE_CONF=/dev/null
>>>
>>> I think that's what the variable is called - I don't have a FreeBSD
>>> handy to check.
>>
>>
>>  % make -V__MAKE_CONF
>>  /etc/make.conf
>>
>> Added.  It does make the next sentence a bit redundant.
>>
>>  It is also suggested that the kernel is built without any other
>>  special options, preferably with an empty /etc/make.conf.
>>
>> Offhand, I can't think of other special options to be given as alternate
>> examples.
>
> Finally thought of src.conf, but "special options" makes me think of
> command-line options or flags.

If there is a __SRC_CONF etc that should probably be set to /dev/null
too, but I can't think of anything else either.

-- 
Simon L. B. Nielsen