/var/db/ports/*/options auto-generation

[Garrett Cooper]

Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>
> PL> > It's not exactly what I want as I need to repeat Tab-Enter pairs for each of 
> PL> > OPTIONS contained port.  What I want is generation options file for all the 
> PL> > ports including defaults (possibly overrided in /etc/make.conf) WITH/WITHOUT 
> PL> > lines...
> PL> 
> PL> Ok, so what about make -V OPTIONS in the port directory, and some
> PL> creative awkery on the output?
>
> It's definitely possible, but it constructs single line of output which is 
> rather hard to parse (though possible, surely).
>   
'for i in {WITH/WITHOUT file}' or read(1) solves that little problem. 
The only catch is that there's a bit of added overhead, but I doubt it's 
much..
> What about creating special target such as 'create-options-file' or 
> 'update-options-file' acting depending of existance of /var/db/ports/*/options 
> and then acting accordingly?
>   
That might be a good idea, as I think it'd allow more tools to benefit 
from the added functionality.
> Well, after a little bit of thought I suppose it should be presented to 
> ports-mgr@ to decide...
>
>
> Sincerely,
> D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
>   
-Garrett