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| author | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2007-02-05 14:27:34 +0000 |
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| committer | rillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org> | 2007-02-05 14:27:34 +0000 |
| commit | 38cb040e39b9458321c6ab61ddf63e1c27b7b67c (patch) | |
| tree | 89fc03f925921a7baf5510766c4717db88c5ef7d /mk/help | |
| parent | e150b2832a1c6e6399511d2c5cef09b543c476b3 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-38cb040e39b9458321c6ab61ddf63e1c27b7b67c.tar.gz | |
More documentation for debugging pkgsrc.
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diff --git a/mk/help/debug.help b/mk/help/debug.help new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f75ea5ed71e --- /dev/null +++ b/mk/help/debug.help @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +# $NetBSD: debug.help,v 1.1 2007/02/05 14:27:34 rillig Exp $ +# +# Since pkgsrc is a quite large and complex software system, it +# sometimes isn't obvious what it is doing exactly. For that reason, +# there are some variables that control how much details are shown to +# the pkgsrc user. +# +# User-settable variables: +# +# PKG_DEBUG_LEVEL +# How verbose should pkgsrc be when running shell commands? +# +# * 0: don't show most shell commands. +# * 1: print the complete shell command to stdout before running +# it. +# * 2: like 1, but in addition, set the "-x" option of /bin/sh, +# so that every single command is printed to stderr before +# running it. +# +# PKG_VERBOSE +# When this variable is defined, pkgsrc gets a bit more verbose. +# This variable is largely independent from PKG_DEBUG_LEVEL. +# +# Default value: (undefined) +# +# XXX: Why are there _two_ variables doing similar things? +# +# Keywords: debug verbose +# |