From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 03:26:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E661065674 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 03:26:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90808FC0C for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 03:26:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31253 invoked by uid 399); 21 May 2010 03:26:51 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.145?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 21 May 2010 03:26:51 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4BF5FD79.1060802@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 20:26:49 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aristedes Maniatis References: <4BDFF264.9090608@ish.com.au> <4BE0434D.5070801@FreeBSD.org> <4BF0B985.7020707@ish.com.au> <4BF0D8DE.6020909@FreeBSD.org> <4BF0DEAC.2040605@ish.com.au> <4BF0DF8B.6040505@FreeBSD.org> <4BF4800E.1010509@ish.com.au> <4BF483C9.403@FreeBSD.org> <4BF4868A.8080305@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4BF4868A.8080305@ish.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jurgen Weber , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster cannot find package X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 03:26:52 -0000 On 5/19/2010 5:47 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > On 20/05/10 10:35 AM, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 05/19/10 17:19, Jurgen Weber wrote: >>> Dough >>> >>> Ah, I see. That looks to have worked correctly. >> >> Excellent! > > Hi Doug > > Can I suggest a note in the man page about this. For many users this is > likely the first time they would hit this discrepancy with the INDEX > files and portsnap. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely consider that for the next version. I already have problems with the documentation being long and detailed, whether it is too much of either is sort of in the eye of the beholder. :) Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/