On 10/9/2013 6:35 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>
> Because I just switched from ruby1.8 to ruby1.9 I've had to
> rebuild and reinstall my ports-mgmt/portupgrade port. That all
> went well, but I got some messages at the end of the re-install
> process that I've never noticed before, and they are all rather
> befuddling to me:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fill ALT_PKGDEP section in pkgtools.conf file for portupgrade to be
> aware of alternative dependencies you use.
> E.g.
> ALT_PKGDEP = {
> # Use the -nox11 port when another port depends on
> category/portexample
> 'category/portexample' => 'category/portexample-nox11',
> }
>
> Note also, portupgrade knows nothing about how to handle ports with
> different suffixes (E.g. -nox11). So you should explicitly define
> variables (E.g. WITHOUT_X11=yes) for the ports in /etc/make.conf or
> pkgtools.conf (MAKE_ARGS section) files.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have no idea what any of the above means. Should I be at all concerned?This has been here for many years. You can safely ignore this. It is just a way to override port dependencies if you want without needing to modify the port files. > > Where exactly is this alleged "pkgtools.conf" file. I looked in /etc. > It ain't there. I've never even heard of it until today. portupgrade supports a config file in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf > > I grok the general idea that there may be a file someplace (called > "pkgtools.conf") wherein one may explicitly override various otherwise > hardwired inter-port dependencies, but what has that got to do with > me? > > I _do_ use X, so none of the rest of this stuff seems the least bit > relevant to anything I am doing. Am I perhaps mistaken? -- Regards, Bryan Drewery
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