docs/52666: "package list creation" document error

Charles Swiger chuck at pkix.net
Sun May 25 04:30:06 UTC 2003


>Number:         52666
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       "package list creation" document error
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 24 21:30:05 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Charles Swiger
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
PKIx
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD ns1.pkix.net 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #1: Fri May 2 01:39:29 EDT 2003 root at ns1.pkix.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NORMAL i386

>Description:

The "&& find -d *" commands in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-autoplist.html don't work and should be replaced with "find ."

>How-To-Repeat:

# mkdir /var/tmp/port-name
# (cd /var/tmp/port-name && find -d * -type d) | sort -r > OLD-DIRS
find: *: No such file or directory

>Fix:

# (cd /var/tmp/port-name && find . -type d) | sort -r > OLD-DIRS

...works fine.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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