FreeBSD did it again (still)

[Vladimir Botka]

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 09:07:03 +0300
Heikki Lindholm <holindho at saunalahti.fi> wrote:

[...]
> One thing I'd like to see in a ports system (if not already there) is 
> some kind of install journal and tools using it that would allow, for 
> instance, to do a whole reinstall from scratch as in "do what I did to 
> build this system, but use the new versions" and it would install ports 
> with the same options ...

The port's options can be configured(restored) in
/var/db/ports/*/options .

To automate the building and configuration of identical systems you
might want to review
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_bsd.html and
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/portinstall_module.html

HTH. Cheers,

	-vlado
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