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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:30:53 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Dave Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris
Subject:   Re: make index failing on chinese/acroread5-chsfont
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In-Reply-To: <20060310022034.GA59583@pentarou.parodius.com>
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:20:34 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:39:52PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > It was removed 3 weeks ago, so the only way cvsup will not delete it
> > is if you either direct it not to delete files, or if you initially
> > installed your ports tree from some other non-cvsup method (e.g. from
> > sysinstall), and then neglected to 'adopt' it the first time you ran
> > cvsup (per the faq on polstra.com).
> 
> The 2nd scenario (re: "negleted to 'adopt' ...") must be what's going
> on here, since I use the standard supfiles in /usr/share/examples/cvsup,
> which contain the `delete` directive.
> 
> I always install ports from CD/DVD, then immediately cvsup afterwards.
> I have never known about this "requirement" until now.
> 
> The handbook should really mention this.  Gut feeling says Mr. Symonds
> and I are not the only two who have been doing it this way...

The is an article called CVSup Advanced Points in our docs:
/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvsup-advanced/article.html
which you might want to read and follow.


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