From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 6 13:49:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07189 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:49:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mph124.rh.psu.edu (mph@MPH124.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07184 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@mph124.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by mph124.rh.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12958; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:48:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mph) Message-ID: <19980206164853.34921@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:48:53 -0500 From: Matthew Hunt To: Charles Owens , hackers list FreeBSD Subject: Re: are the ports README.html in the cvs repository? Mail-Followup-To: Charles Owens , hackers list FreeBSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Charles Owens on Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 04:15:22PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 04:15:22PM -0500, Charles Owens wrote: > ... then the resulting ports tree does _not_ contain the README.html > files. Do I need to do something special to get them to appear? You can produce it with 'make README.html'. > If I'm wondering what a particular port is I don't really want to have to > do a 'make extract' and scrounge through the src for docs. That is unnecessary. The files "pkg/COMMENT" and "pkg/DESCR" contain the info that goes into README.html, so I just read those instead of generating README.html. -- Matthew Hunt * Think locally, act globally. http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349.