On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 09:35:48 +0000 (GMT) "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> How do I make environment variables used by portupgrade visible to > portupgrade? > > Portupgrade evidently ignores /etc/make.conf, and > editing /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf also fails to help. > > I want portupgrade to recognize > PORTSDIR=/BETA1/usr/ports > and > PACKAGES=/usr/packages > > but continue to get > > > cd: /usr/ports: No such file or directory > cd: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade: No such file or directory > > when it should be looking for /BETA1/usr/ports > > I was in directory /BETA1/usr/ports/print/py-reportlab2 ; offending > command was > > portupgrade -o py-reportlab2 py-reportlab | & tee portupg.log > > I think that should have been > > portupgrade -o print/py-reportlab2 print/py-reportlab | & tee > portupg.log > > That failed because print/py-reportlab had already been built and > installed, so I had to pkg_delete it, then build py-reportlab2 > without portupgrade. > > Problem arose because py-reportlab2, a dependency of print/hplip, was > broken (did not package), and I subsequently built and installed > py-reportlab . > > after a later "portsnap fetch update", I decided to go back to > print/py-reportlab2 . > > But I still want to know where portupgrade gets environment > variables: /etc/make.conf, /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf (in Ruby?), > or other. > > Tom Set them in your shell's environment: export PORTSDIR=/BETA1/usr/ports export PACKAGES=/usr/packages -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
