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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .Dd May 22, 2007 .Dt MACPORTS.CONF 5 "MacPorts" .Os .Sh NAME macports.conf .Nd Configuration file of the MacPorts system .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm macports.conf is the configuration file used to bootstrap the MacPorts system. This file is read by the .Nm port command and determines how it behaves. Lines beginning with '#' are comments, empty lines are ignored. The format is that of a simple key/value space or tab separated pair. .Pp The file contains entries of the form: .Pp .Dl Va " " .Pp The value of any given key can be referred to by the '${}' abstraction, where expands to the key in question. .Pp .Sh KEYS The following keys are used by .Nm port itself: .Pp .Bl -tag -width lc .It Va prefix Sets the directory where ports are installed. Any path may be used but those with spaces and/or non ascii characters should be avoided, as this can break some ports. This key is often referred to as '${prefix}'. .br .Ic Default: /opt/local .It Va portdbpath Directory where MacPorts keeps working data such as downloaded sources, installed ports' receipts and the main registry. The same path restrictions apply as for '${prefix}'. .br .Ic Default: ${prefix}/var/macports .It Va portdbformat Storage type to use for the MacPorts registry. Currently the only supported format is "flat". .br .Ic Default: flat .It Va portinstalltype Sets the mode in which ports are installed by MacPorts. Supported values are 'direct' or 'image'. The 'direct' mode is often used on systems that do not support 'image' due to limitations in their installed version of Tcl. In 'direct' mode ports are installed directly into '${prefix}' and only one flavor of a port can be installed at any given time. In 'image' mode multiple flavors of a port (i.e., different versions and/or any possible combination of its variants) can be installed concurrently into '${portdbpath}/software/${portname}' and only one can be "activated" onto '${prefix}' via soft or hard links from the former to the latter. .br .Ic Default: image .It Va applications_dir Directory containing Applications installed from ports. .br .Ic Default: /Applications/MacPorts .It Va frameworks_dir Directory containing Frameworks installed from ports. .br .Ic Default: ${prefix}/Library/Frameworks .It Va sources_conf Location of the sources file. This file enables rsync synchronization of the default ports tree with the MacPorts rsync server (through the "sync" target of the .Nm port command) and any other local tree(s) you might have. .br .Ic Default: ${prefix}/etc/macports/sources.conf .It Va variants_conf Location of the optional global variants definition file, listing those that should be used in all installed ports if available. .br .Ic Default: ${prefix}/etc/macports/variants.conf .It Va portarchivemode Key governing the creation of binary archives of installed ports for installation/reinstallation ease. .br .Ic Default: yes .It Va portarchivepath Location to store ports' binary archive files when archive mode is active. .br .Ic Default: ${portdbpath}/packages .It Va portarchivetype Colon or comma separated, space free list of supported formats of archives to create or read from when \&'${archivemode}' is set to 'yes'. Use of multiple types will cause archive creation to build all the specified types in one step. Unarchive uses multiple types as a search list to locate any existing archive, with the first found match being used. .br Supported types are: tgz, tar, tbz, tbz2, tlz, txz, xar, zip, cpgz, cpio .br .Ic Default: tgz .It Va configureccache Use ccache (C/C++ compiler cache). Requires that ccache has been installed. .br .Ic Default: no .It Va configuredistcc Use distcc (distributed compiler). Requires that distcc has been installed. .br .Ic Default: no .It Va configurepipe Use pipes rather than intermediate files when compiling C/C++/etc (gcc -pipe) .br .Ic Default: yes .It Va buildnicevalue Lowered scheduling priority (0-20) to use for make when building ports .br .Ic Default: 0 .It Va buildmakejobs Number of simultaneous make jobs (commands) to use when building ports. 0 is a special value meaning "the number of CPU cores or the number of GB of physical memory plus one, whichever is less." .br .Ic Default: 0 .It Va portautoclean Automatic cleaning of the build directory of a given port after it has been installed. .br .Ic Default: yes .It Va keeplogs Keep logs for ports .br .Ic Default: yes .It Va build_arch The machine architecture to try to build for in normal use .br Regular architectures include: ppc, i386, ppc64, x86_64 .br .Ic Default (10.6): x86_64 or i386 depending on hardware .br .Ic Default (10.5 and earlier): i386 or ppc depending on hardware .It Va universal_archs The machine architectures to use for +universal variant (multiple architecture entries should be space separated) .br Regular architectures include: ppc, i386, ppc64, x86_64 .br .Ic Default (10.6): x86_64 i386 .br .Ic Default (10.5 and earlier): i386 ppc .It Va startupitem_type Set the default type of startupitems to be generated, overridable by Portfiles that explicitly state a startupitem.type key. If set to "default", then a type will be selected that's appropriate to the OS. Supported types are: none, SystemStarter, launchd, default, rcNG. .br .Ic Default: default .It Va destroot_umask Umask value to use during the destrooting of a port. .br .Ic Default: 022 .It Va rsync_server Default rsync server to connect to when running "selfupdate" through the .Nm port command to update your base MacPorts infrastructure. While selfupdate also syncs the ports tree, it uses the settings from ${sources_conf} to do so. .br .Ic Default: rsync.macports.org .It Va rsync_dir Rsync directory from which to pull MacPorts sources from the rsync server. .br .Ic Default: release/base/ (which pulls sources for the currently shipping MacPorts release) .It Va rsync_options Default rsync options to use when connecting to the rsync server. .br .Ic Default: -rtzv --delete-after .It Va binpath Sets the directory search path for locating system executables used by MacPorts. This variable should contain the paths for locating utilities such as rsync, tar, cvs and others. Don't change this unless you understand and accept the consequences. .br .Ic Default: ${prefix}/bin:${prefix}/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin .It Va extra_env List of extra environment variables MacPorts should keep in the user's environment when sanitizing it. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width .It Va ${prefix}/etc/macports/macports.conf Standard system-wide MacPorts configuration file. .It Va ~/.macports/macports.conf User-specific configuration override. This file, if found, will be used instead of the default file at ${prefix}/etc/macports/macports.conf. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr port 1 , .Xr portfile 7 , .Xr portgroup 7 , .Xr portstyle 7 .Xr porthier 7 , .Sh AUTHORS .An "Juan Manuel Palacios" Aq jmpp@macports.org .An "Matt Anton" Aq matt@opendarwin.org