Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Tue Mar 13 21:11:16 UTC 2007


On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:39:20 -0400
Randy Pratt <bsd-unix at earthlink.net> wrote:


> There is already a mechanism in place for this:
> 
> 	/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf


It better to put the configuaration in make.conf so it's seen by the
ports system itself.  ports-mgmt/portconf can simplify this

The problem with pkgtools.conf is that it doesn't always work.
Missing dependencies get built by the ports system itself, outside of
portupgrade's control.  


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