From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 21 11:34:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2B037BF9F; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 5E3559B0A; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:34:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52BA8BA16; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:34:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:34:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@pawn.primelocation.net To: Brad Knowles Cc: jedgar@FreeBSD.org, brad@shub-internet.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/19417: /usr/ports/misc/jargon/README.html needs updating now ;-) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:00 AM -0700 2000/6/21, jedgar@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > > The README.html files are dynamically created and not kept > > in the CVS repository. > > If you wish to update your README.html's, type 'make readme' > > in the director[y|ies] of your choice. > > Okay, this makes sense -- as far as it goes. > > > However, does this not imply that "make readme" in /usr/ports > should automatically be done at the end of the "make update" in the > same directory? > Depends. Personally, I would rather not have all those files hanging around (3400+ ports == 3400+ README.html's). > Maybe I'm being silly (or I don't fully understand what is going > on), but it just seems logical to me that since the README.html files > are dependant on the source in the port, when the port is updated > that we should also kick off a "make readme" in the appropriate > directory. > How about updating INDEX (or a local copy thereof) while you are at it? As long as it's optional it sounds good to me. ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message