From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 14:30:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AE821D; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:30:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eadler@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817FA8FC0A; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:30:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9UEUllr010588; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:30:47 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from eadler@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q9UEUlQU010586; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:30:47 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201210301430.q9UEUlQU010586@svn.freebsd.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:30:47 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:30:47 -0000 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 - First, always make sure that you have a completely + First, always make sure that you have a complete up-to-date Ports Collection. Errors that affect building INDEX from an up-to-date copy of the Ports Collection are high-visibility and are thus almost always fixed immediately. - However, if you are up-to-date, perhaps you are seeing - another problem. make index - 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 - foo/bar on your disk, and - foo/bar depends on - baz/quux, then you must also have a - copy of baz/quux on your disk, and the - ports baz/quux depends on, and so on. - Otherwise, make index - has insufficient information to create its dependency - tree. - - 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 refuse. 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 - INDEX, you must have a complete copy of - the Ports Collection. - There are rare cases where INDEX will not build due to odd cases involving WITH_* or