[nycbug-talk] Re: confusion with NetBSD's PKG_OPTIONS

[Scott Robbins]

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On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 03:25:03PM -0500, Amitai Schlair wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> >According to that page on pkgsrc, using mk.conf for this is deprecated.
> >On the other hand, many knowledgeable NetBSD folks seem to feel that
> >putting these things in mk.conf is the best idea.
> 
> It's definitely not deprecated! Can you point me at the page where you read 
> that, so we can fix it?

Most definitely.  

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/configuring.html#general-configuration

(sorry about the wrap)

If you are part of the NetBSD documentation team, then may I suggest
putting in a few examples?

Actually, I see that rereading it (when I read it last night it was
quite late) the actual wording is.


===============================================

efore the options framework was introduced, build options were selected
by setting a variable in /etc/mk.conf for each option. To ease
transition to the options framework for the user, these legacy variables
are converted to the appropriate options setting automatically. A
warning is issued to prompt the user to update /etc/mk.conf to use the
options framework directly. Support for these legacy variables will be
removed eventually.

==============================================

I took that to mean that setting them in mk.conf was deprecated, but I'm
putting that down to it being very late at night when I read it. 

A bit of experimentation indicates that in mk.conf, if you use " " you
get an error message.  For example, if I wanted to include the
non-default eb and not include canna, my mk.conf entry would be

PKG_OPTIONS.uim=eb -canna

Again, I think examples would be extremely helpful to the reader.  


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