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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:57:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Roland Jesse <jesse@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make clean problem in 'biology'
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003011856210.82773-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000302020254.E327@marder-1>

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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Mark Ovens wrote:

> But is it really a bug? For instance, I have xview installed on my
> system but pkg_version reports xview-config-3.2.1 and xview-lib-3.2.1
> as "unknown in index" so if I tried to ``make clean''
> xview-3.2.1 I would expect it to crash as neither of the the 2
> dependencies are in the current ports tree.

'make clean' doesn't use the index at all, unless I'm fundamentally
mistaken - it walks the tree of port makefiles according to the contents
of *_DEPENDS

Kris

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