Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:28:39 -0400 From: epilogue@allstream.net To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: cvsup entry no longer accurate... Message-ID: <20040622002839.3a04a874@localhost>
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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
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