From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 04:28:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E96016A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 04:28:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outbox.allstream.net (outbox.allstream.net [207.245.244.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624A043D1F for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 04:28:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from epilogue@allstream.net) Received: from localhost (mon-pq62-150.dial.allstream.net [216.123.141.150]) by outbox.allstream.net (Allstream MTA) with SMTP id E5E8C60F5 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:28:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:28:39 -0400 From: epilogue@allstream.net To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040622002839.3a04a874@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: cvsup entry no longer accurate... X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 04:28:49 -0000 hello all, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html i believe that the entry outlining the uses for the refuse file (section A.5.3.1) no longer provides reliable guidance and is in need of review. apparently, users can no longer selectively exclude sections of the ports tree or their INDEX rebuilds will fail. on the questions list we're seeing traffic related to this ever since the following hit /usr/ports/CHANGES. 20040610: The following behavioural or feature changes were committed: [big snip] * While building index, treat non-existent dependencies as fatal. Previously the error was being hidden by the stderr redirection. hope that this helps. best regards, epi