Re: Extraneous dependencies in bind920

Moin Rahman <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:06:16 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID	<[email protected]>


> On Mar 12, 2026, at 16:32, Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
>>>> I just noticed that a poudriere build of dns/bind920 is compiling
>>>> things like ghostscript and cups.... Is that necessary? Can it be
>>>> prevented?
>>> 
>>> This might help, please test:
>>> 
>>> make config
>>> 
>>> DOCS=off
>> 
>> Apologies for being obtuse, is this part of the poudriere command
>> or something done directly in /usr/ports?
> 
> This probably can be done in /usr/ports/dns/bind920.
> 
> I have not tested all the details, but if poudriere is set up properly,
> it should write some entries to:
> 
> /var/db/ports/dns_bind920/options
> 
> which can be copied to
> 
> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/options/dns_bind920
> 
> to be picked up in the next poudriere run.
> 
>> As an aside, I'd like to
>> have the man pages, it's the GUI-related material that seems a waste
>> since this is for a headless server.
> 
> I have not analysed this in full detail, but I'm not sure man pages
> and the rest can easily be seperatly build.
> 
>> As an aside, quite a few Linux programs seem to have no man page.
>> It would be sad if FreeBSD went that route.
> 
> I agree, but this depends on the port and the nitty-gritty details
> of the app itself.
> 
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> 

Easiest would be:

% echo "dns_bind920_UNSET+=DOCS >> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf

Kind regards,
Moin

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