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Old 16th June 2008
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I thought that I'd clarify that a bit: An increasing number of ports display options when the ports build. This is part of the port infrastructure, and these options will be shown when you build a port for the first time using portmaster or portupgrade. portmaster even goes through the ports you are going to build and displays any config options for any unconfigured ports up front, so you don't have to baby-sit the build.

But there are other options in ports that have not or cannot be moved to this system. These ones must be set in /etc/make.conf, or by using portsconf or portmaster's config file. (One of the admins recently posted a complicated make.conf file that sets options depending on what port you are building. portsconf does a similar thing, but is less messy.)

Port options set can be changed by running make config, and can be cleared by running make rmconfig in the port directory. The values are stored in files located in /var/db/ports, but directly editing them is not recommended.
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