Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:09:41 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports files Message-ID: <200402121109.41128.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <402BC10B.2050902@buddydog.org> References: <402B7B05.8050909@buddydog.org> <20040212135038.GA62070@ozzmosis.com> <402BC10B.2050902@buddydog.org>
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On Thursday 12 February 2004 10:08 am, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > andrew clarke wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:09:25AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >>My port hierarchy seems to have gotten out of date or something. > >>It is missing some subdirectories, like multimedia, even though I > >>run cvsup every other night on it. > > > > I had this problem too with /usr/ports/dns not being updated, even > > though ports-dns was listed in my ports-supfile. Switched to > > another cvsup server and all was well. > > Actually, looking at the cvsup file I was using, it didn't include > the multimedia port. I created it awhile ago, and commented out the > ports-all line, because I didn't want to get the Chinese or Japanese, > etc, ports. But there doesn't seem to be an easy way to get > everything but those. There is a 'refuse' file, but that is based > upon the file name, and I'm not sure I want to refuse everything > with, say, 'chinese' in its filename. Well, when you refuse, you take a chance on "make index" not working. The choice is yours :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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