Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:35:34 +0400 (MSD) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: andrews@technologist.com (Will Andrews) Cc: jjreynold@home.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make index broken? Message-ID: <200004141435.SAA24154@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <20000414065027.B19141@argon.blackdawn.com> from "Will Andrews" at "Apr 14, 0 06:50:27 am"
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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
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