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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:11:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tracking -docs like -stable
Message-ID:  <200102212011.PAA24262@world.std.com>
References:  <200102210104.UAA21183@world.std.com> <200102210435.XAA11753@world.std.com>

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>From nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk  Wed Feb 21 11:50:30 2001
>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:18:45 +0000
>From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
>To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com>
>Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Tracking -docs like -stable
>
>On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:35:30PM -0500, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
>> Just For Fun, I tried "make" in /usr/doc and it stopped on
>> lack of "eps2png."  I can't find any mention of that pgm in
>> ports/textproc/docproj...  Hmmm...
>
>You've CVSup'd at an odd time.  Yesterday, I committed a bunch of stuff
>to support images in the documentation, and updated the docproj port to

Whoops!  :)  So I should have guessed...

>depend on a few more bits and pieces.  There was a small time window in
>which things may have been out of sync.  Something like
>
>    # cd /usr/ports/textproc/docproj
>    # make deinstall
>    # make install
>
>*should* work.  If "make deinstall" doesn't work, use pkg_delete to
>delete the docproj package, and then reinstall it from the port, to
>update the dependencies properly.

"make deinstall" often doesn't work properly for me, I
think because of a more recent ports-tree than the
particular port.  So, I usually just use "pkg_delete."  :)

>> As I mentioned in another reply (to -doc), I think it's a
>> Good Idea (if you can) to bring -doc up to date from time
>> to time, especially if you're tracking -stable.  The
>> "problem" is that this is not as "spelled-out" as is
>> tracking -stable.
>
>Very true.  Hopefully my other message should give you enough info about this.
>
>N

Wow!  Thank you!

-kc

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