Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 12:53:28 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "make readmes" no longer builds individual ports' README.html files? Message-ID: <20110809125328.1b994d99@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20110808223535.64fa91d1@serene.no-ip.org> References: <20110808223535.64fa91d1@serene.no-ip.org>
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On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:35:35 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Having been away from FreeBSD for a while, I'm still catching up with > all the changes that took place while I was on hiatus, so bear with me > here. :-) > > Trying to construct the ports' README.html files with: > > cd /usr/ports > make readmes > > Much to my surprise, this only creates README.html at the top level > and within each category, but nothing under the individual ports' > directories. When did this change, and why? Mailing list search has > turned up nothing useful on the subject. > > Or maybe I'm just doing it wrong? :-) > > Thanks. > When you "make readmes" from the top level the per port files are created by a perl script I tried running perl /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes < /usr/ports/INDEX-8 and it didn't work. Since it's quite old I would guess a perl upgrade has probably broken it. [ Since this was cross-posted I've set a reply-to to "ports" where it belongs ]
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