Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:11:00 -0600
From:      "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <41969484.3010700@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <200411131802.iADI2ole012671@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200411131802.iADI2ole012671@repoman.freebsd.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Pav Lucistnik wrote:

>pav         2004-11-13 18:02:50 UTC
>
>  FreeBSD doc repository (ports committer)
>
>  Modified files:
>    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors chapter.sgml 
>  Log:
>  - Remove a ports related section of CVSup refuse example. There are people
>    who blindly copy this example to their environment. These people end
>    with ports tree uncapable of building INDEX (some ports depend on ports
>    in japanese category, which is refused in this example).
>  
>    The remaining part of example still does a good job in demonstrating
>    CVSup refuse file syntax.
>  
>  Approved by:    simon (doc hat),
>                  linimon (portmgr hat)
>  
>  Revision  Changes    Path
>  1.366     +3 -17     doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.sgml
>

Hmm, I was just helping a fellow on questions@ who had this problem on his
workstation.

It seems well to me (not that I matter much) to do this much; 
additionally, what about
the section in handbook Appendix A on CVSup (where the text is nearly 
identical,
though the example is not there)? 

Would it be a Good Thing(tm) to add a brief warning that you shouldn't 
expect to
refuse anything in the  ports tree and call 'make index' or 'portsdb 
-uU', etc.,
but you can fix the problem by "make fetchindex" if necessary . . .

I'll happily file a PR if it seems appropriate to do so to you 
'documitters' ...

Kevin Kinsey



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?41969484.3010700>