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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My port hierarchy seems to have gotten out of date or something.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

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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