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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 00:35:00 -0600
From: Tom Jackson <tom@my.domain>
To: Burton Sampley <bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com>
Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: current ports
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On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:28:22PM -0800, Burton Sampley wrote:
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> COOL!! Thanks Jordan!  I was always curious how to get the *.html files
> back into the ports.  I really liked that feature from the cdrom install.
> 
> - - burton -
> 
> 
> On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Since erasing, and CVSup'ing my ports tree, I have lost all the
> > > README.html files that populated the ports tree.  How can I set up CVSup
> > > to get these files?
> > 
> > CVSup doesn't supply them - they're custom generated by the release
> > scripts for the ports distribution.  You can remake them at any time
> > by saying:
> > 
> > 	cd /usr/ports
> > 	make readmes
> > 
> 
> - ---------------
> 
> Burton Sampley
> bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu
> PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html 
> 
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Yes, that is great information. Now, how do you retain this great
reference info but separate it from the ports directory so that
cvs doesn't spit out a million "?" lines for all the *.html files?

Tom