Re: Extraneous dependencies in bind920

Moin Rahman <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:38:33 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> On Mar 12, 2026, at 17:37, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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

No. What you are looking for is:

.if ${.CURDIR:M*/dns}
OPTIONS_UNSET+=DOCS
.endif

Kind regards,
Moin
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