Bug 114731

Summary: [patch] no mention of PORT_DBDIR in ports(7)
Product: Documentation Reporter: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Matthew Seaman 2007-07-19 15:50:07 UTC 
The ports(7) man page contains no mention of either the PORT_DBDIR
variable or its usual default location '/var/db/ports'
Comment 1 Gabor Kovesdan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-08-22 15:54:47 UTC 
And what about PKG_DBDIR? And LOCALBASE, LINUXBASE? All of those can be 
changed and there are a lot of other variables for fine-tuning. The 
question is that should we collect and document all of those or draw a 
line somewhere? If so, where?

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Comment 2 Matthew Seaman 2007-08-22 16:58:31 UTC 
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Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> And what about PKG_DBDIR? And LOCALBASE, LINUXBASE? All of those can be
> changed and there are a lot of other variables for fine-tuning. The
> question is that should we collect and document all of those or draw a
> line somewhere? If so, where?

Well, yes.  Ideally all of the variables that a user can set to
affect the behaviour of the common shared Makefiles in /usr/ports/Mk
will be documented somewhere.  Of the ones you mention, PKG_DBDIR is
described in pkg_info(1).  LOCALBASE and LINUXBASE are covered in
The Porter's Handbook.  However, I couldn't find anywhere where
PORT_DBDIR was described other than the contents of /usr/ports/Mk,
and it seems to me the natural place to document it is in ports(7).

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Comment 3 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-12-21 21:44:38 UTC 
gabor       2007-12-21 21:44:33 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository (doc,ports committer)

  Modified files:
    share/man/man7       ports.7 
  Log:
  - Document PORT_DBDIR
  
  PR:             docs/114731
  Submitted by:   Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.63      +11 -0     src/share/man/man7/ports.7
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Comment 4 Gabor Kovesdan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-12-21 21:58:26 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Patched in HEAD, MFC reminder.
Comment 5 Gabor Kovesdan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-12-21 21:58:26 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->gabor

Take.
Comment 6 Gabor Kovesdan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-01-04 13:44:11 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

Committed, thanks!