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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:17:11 +0100
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>
To:        Yonatan Bokovza <Yonatan@xpert.com>
Cc:        "'John Reynolds~'" <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>, "'freebsd-doc@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports readme's
Message-ID:  <20001120181711.F18598@lucifer.bart.nl>
In-Reply-To: <00BF97DD9F3FD311AB860060084E50DD782E01@exchange.xpert.com>; from Yonatan@xpert.com on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 07:44:07PM %2B0200
References:  <00BF97DD9F3FD311AB860060084E50DD782E01@exchange.xpert.com>

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-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,

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