Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:43:13 +0100 From: Lutz Kittler <Lutz.Kittler@sse-erfurt.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deleted ports Message-ID: <200311130843.13896.Lutz.Kittler@sse-erfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <20031113073207.GA11871@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <200311111000.57933.Lutz.Kittler@sse-erfurt.de> <200311130816.50610.Lutz.Kittler@sse-erfurt.de> <20031113073207.GA11871@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Am Donnerstag, 13. November 2003 08:32 schrieb Erik Trulsson: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:16:50AM +0100, Lutz Kittler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had a problem with the Mesa3-Port. Someone told me > > that the port has moved to libglut. > > The problem was, that /usr/ports/graphics/Mesa3 was > > not deleted and the only in this directory was README.html. > > When I deleted the file and the mesa-directory libglut was > > installed and everything was okay. > > > > So I have 2 questions: > > 1. Why the mesa-port dir wasnt deleted ? > > Because you had created the README.html file in that directory. > (You have probably issued a 'make readmes' at some point in the past.) > cvsup does not delete non-empty directories. > Thanks, but I havent done any 'make readmes' explicitly. I only did 'make build/package/install' or install ports by portupgrade. Is there a possibility that some of these commands has done 'make readmes' implicitly? In this case it would be good to know in which configuration file I can change this behaviour. Is there a standard way to get rid of README.html of deleted ports ? lutz
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