Switching from building ports to packages

Chad J. Milios milios at ccsys.com
Mon Sep 15 03:38:59 UTC 2014


On 09/14/14 16:34, Matt Reimer wrote:
> I'd like to switch from building everything from source using ports to
> using packages as much as possible. This requires identifying which ports
> I'm currently building use the same port knobs as the binary packages that
> FreeBSD builds. Is there an easy way of showing how my port configs differ
> from the defaults that are used to build binary packages?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Matt
>
IMPORTANT not to forget that things you may have put in your 
/etc/make.conf such as DEFAULT_VERSIONS etc may affect far more ports 
than you realize even when those ports have default OPTIONS.


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