Ports

Loren M. Lang lorenl at alzatex.com
Wed Feb 16 11:46:30 GMT 2005


On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:54:05PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Monday, February 14, 2005 11:53:04 AM -0500 Christopher McGee 
> <chris at xecu.net> wrote:
> >
> >Could you please give some detail about setting options for individual
> >ports in make.conf?  Maybe I missed something in 'man make.conf' or 'man
> >ports' but everything seems to refer to global options.  The only example
> >I've found is in man portmanager, but I'm still a little unsure about the
> >how to do it properly.
> >
> Since Mike posted an example, I won't repeat it.  I should point out that 
> you can also use /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.  Here's an example of that:
> 
> MAKE_ARGS = {
>    'security/snort-*' => 'WITH_MYSQL=1 WITH_FLEXRESP=1'
>  }

One thing that should be mentioned here is that this only works when one
is using portupgrade for installing and upgrading ports.  People using
portmanager or just the straight makefiles in /usr/ports won't be
benifiting from this.

> 
> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
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