ports 'make readmes' fails

Christopher Kelley bsd at kelleycows.com
Fri Mar 11 11:24:06 PST 2005


Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:14:35AM -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote:
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>>I just tried to 'make readmes' in my ports directory, and got a very 
>>strange result.  The README.html files in /usr/ports and in 
>>/usr/ports/category are correct, but the individual port README.html 
>>files (e.g. /usr/ports/mail/mutt/README.html) all have only one line, 
>>which is 'cat /README.port'.
>>
>>I am running 5.3-RELEASE-p5, and, I verified my /usr/ports/Makefile, 
>>/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes files 
>>against the ones on cvsup.pt.freebsd.org.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
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>Do you have an INDEX-5 file present in /usr/ports? make fetchindex if not.
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>Kris
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Yes, I do.  I forgot to mention I have just cvsup'd ports as well, and I 
always do a 'make fetchindex' after I cvsup ports.

Christopher



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