From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jun 22 4:21:54 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 1695337C268 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 04:21:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: from earth.causticlabs.com (oca-u1-22.hitter.net [207.192.78.22]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E7D9B1F; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:21:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:21:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@earth.causticlabs.com To: Brad Knowles Cc: James Housley , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/19417: /usr/ports/misc/jargon/README.html needsupdating 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 2:59 PM -0400 2000/6/21, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > > > Because README.html files are included in the RELEASES (when you install > > and select 'ports') but not if you CVSup from scratch. If you have never > > done a 'make readme', then your README.html files are simply what was > > extracted during the install. > > Alright, can we then say that they should be updated if they are > present, and otherwise left alone? > Have you ever updated all the readme's for the ports...it's not something that people will want to on a daily/weekly basis. > > Personally I don't install the ports tree from a RELEASE, instead > > CVSup'ing from my local CVS tree, so I have no READHE.html's around. > > Out of curiosity, what are your views on how common this sort of > activity would be, relative to installing the ports tree from a > RELEASE, and then perhaps CVS'uping from there? > Probably quite normal. ----- 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