docs/114731: no mention of PORT_DBDIR in ports(7)
>Number: 114731
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: no mention of PORT_DBDIR in ports(7)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 19 14:50:07 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Matthew Seaman
>Release: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Infracaninophile
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #5: Sat Jul 14 01:44:09 BST 2007 root@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HAPPY-IDIOT-TALK i386
>Description:
The ports(7) man page contains no mention of either the PORT_DBDIR
variable or its usual default location '/var/db/ports'
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- ports.7.diff begins here ---
--- share/man/man7/ports.7.orig Thu Jul 19 15:15:31 2007
+++ share/man/man7/ports.7 Thu Jul 19 15:33:32 2007
@@ -462,6 +462,17 @@
what you are doing and are sure about installing a forbidden port, then
.Va NO_IGNORE
lets you do it.
+.It Va PORT_DBDIR
+Directory where the results of configuring
+.Va OPTIONS
+are stored.
+Defaults to
+.Pa /var/db/ports .
+Each port where
+.Va OPTIONS
+have been configured will have a uniquely named sub-directory, containing a
+single file
+.Pa options .
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk" -compact
--- ports.7.diff ends here ---
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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