Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:30:47 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r39860 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <201210301430.q9UEUlQU010586@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Tue Oct 30 14:30:46 2012 New Revision: 39860 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39860 Log: Users should always be using a complete copy of the ports tree. csup is leaving us shortly so don't bother mentioning it. Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Oct 30 14:30:44 2012 (r39859) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Oct 30 14:30:46 2012 (r39860) @@ -4088,38 +4088,12 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82 </question> <answer> - <para>First, always make sure that you have a completely + <para>First, always make sure that you have a complete up-to-date Ports Collection. Errors that affect building <filename>INDEX</filename> from an up-to-date copy of the Ports Collection are high-visibility and are thus almost always fixed immediately.</para> - <para>However, if you are up-to-date, perhaps you are seeing - another problem. <command>make <maketarget>index</maketarget></command> - has a known bug in dealing with incomplete copies of the - Ports Collection. It assumes that you have a local copy of - every single port that every other port that you have a - local copy of depends on. To explain, if you have a copy of - <filename>foo/bar</filename> on your disk, and - <filename>foo/bar</filename> depends on - <filename>baz/quux</filename>, then you must also have a - copy of <filename>baz/quux</filename> on your disk, and the - ports <filename>baz/quux</filename> depends on, and so on. - Otherwise, <command>make <maketarget>index</maketarget></command> - has insufficient information to create its dependency - tree.</para> - - <para>This is particularly a problem for &os; users who - utilize &man.csup.1; to track the Ports - Collection but choose not to install certain categories by - specifying them in <filename>refuse</filename>. In theory, - one should be able to refuse categories, but in practice - there are too many ports that depend on ports in other - categories. Until someone comes up with a solution for this - problem, the general rule is that if you want to build - <filename>INDEX</filename>, you must have a complete copy of - the Ports Collection.</para> - <para>There are rare cases where <filename>INDEX</filename> will not build due to odd cases involving <makevar>WITH_<replaceable>*</replaceable></makevar> or
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