Re: Extraneous dependencies in bind920

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 05:06:16PM +0100, Moin Rahman wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > [email protected]         +49 171 3101372                  Now what ?
> > 
> 
> Easiest would be:
> 
> % echo "dns_bind920_UNSET+=DOCS >> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf
> 

Hmm, could one substitute

echo "dns_UNSET+=DOCS" >> /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/make.conf
			
to make the setting apply to everything in /usr/ports/dns ?

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska