From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 20 9:20:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.ninth-circle.org (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C556437B479; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.ninth-circle.org (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eAKHHCw00344; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:17:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:17:11 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Yonatan Bokovza Cc: "'John Reynolds~'" , "'freebsd-doc@freebsd.org'" , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports readme's Message-ID: <20001120181711.F18598@lucifer.bart.nl> Reply-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00BF97DD9F3FD311AB860060084E50DD782E01@exchange.xpert.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00BF97DD9F3FD311AB860060084E50DD782E01@exchange.xpert.com>; from Yonatan@xpert.com on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:44:07PM +0200 Organisation: VIA Net.Works The Netherlands Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Please try to snip as much unneeded lines as possible, it helps reading mails for others, thanks.] -On [20001114 19:00], Yonatan Bokovza (Yonatan@xpert.com) wrote: >>> > when they sould point to "pkg-descr" >>> > should that be a PR ? >>>> you need to remake the README files >>> >>> cd /usr/ports >>> make readmes >>they are not controlled via CVSup or any other means but are generated. >Forgot to mention that. that's why you have to regen them locally. >Souldn't that fact be documented in /usr/src/UPDATING or other relevant >place? No. /usr/src is for the source tree which the ports tree has nothing to do with. I'd suggest you ask our ports people in freebsd-ports@freebsd.org [reply-to set and cc:'d] how they want to document this and where. If our docs need to be changed, I am all ears. Kind regards, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best Network- and systemadministrator D78D D0AD 244D 1D12 C9CA 7152 035C 1138 546A B867 A pilgrim must follow in search of a shrine, as he enters inside a cathedral... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message