Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-06 Thread Arend P. van der Veen
Thanks for your story. The only reason we used -U was that we were not sure what they meant got special macros. The man page for portsdb status that you only use -U if you have special macros in /etc/make.conf. All we have in there is version information so I think that does not apply to

Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-06 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: Thanks for your story. The only reason we used -U was that we were not sure what they meant got special macros. The man page for portsdb status that you only use -U if you have special macros in /etc/make.conf. All we have in there is

Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: Thanks for your story. The only reason we used -U was that we were not sure what they meant got special macros. The man page for portsdb status that you only use -U

Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-06 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
If you ever figure out what special macros are or in which situations the ''-U'' switch is useful, please do let me know. Having Special Macros is (I am almost certain) a strange way of saying that you have set various make variables which will affect the dependency tree for a port. Eg. if

Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: If you ever figure out what special macros are or in which situations the ''-U'' switch is useful, please do let me know. Having Special Macros is (I am almost certain) a strange way of saying that you have set

Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-06 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Matthew Seaman wrote: There isn't one place you can go to see everything that might affect a particular port. The port's Makefile is a good place to start, and most port Maintainers will document to a greater or lesser extent what tunables and so forth are available within the file, although