From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 14 7:37: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from aaz.links.ru (aaz.links.ru [193.125.152.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8409E37B7A2 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babolo@links.ru) Received: (from babolo@localhost) by aaz.links.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA24154; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:35:34 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <200004141435.SAA24154@aaz.links.ru> Subject: Re: make index broken? In-Reply-To: <20000414065027.B19141@argon.blackdawn.com> from "Will Andrews" at "Apr 14, 0 06:50:27 am" To: andrews@technologist.com (Will Andrews) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:35:34 +0400 (MSD) Cc: jjreynold@home.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews writes: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:42:05PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > > I've got a newly CVSup'ed ports tree and was trying to do "make index" from > > /usr/ports and I got this: > > > > root@whale [/usr/ports]<8># make index > > Generating INDEX - please wait..make: don't know how to make describe. Stop > > Why are you using ``make index'' anyway? The only thing it does is generate > INDEX, which isn't awesomely useful for the average person since Satoshi > regens it himself every now and then. Overwriting ports/INDEX brings a risk > - cvs (or whatever tool you use) may think the previous revision (which is > supposed to be on your system) is broken/gone/fubar'd/whatever. The INDEX > file is pretty darn big.. ;) Hm... What is another method if use some own ports in pors tree? -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message