docs/166502: [PATCH] porters-handbook: add make readme to testing, document post-deinstall as invalid

Jason Helfman jgh at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 29 21:10:11 UTC 2012


>Number:         166502
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] porters-handbook: add make readme to testing, document post-deinstall as invalid
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 29 21:10:10 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jason Helfman
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dormouse.experts-exchange.com 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011
>Description:
make readme should be tested as part of the porting process
post-deinstall is not a vaild target, and should be documented

Port maintainer (doc at FreeBSD.org) is cc'd.

Generated with FreeBSD Port Tools 0.99_5 (mode: change, diff: CVS)
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- .patch begins here ---
Index: book.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.1173
diff -u -r1.1173 book.sgml
--- book.sgml	22 Mar 2012 04:09:20 -0000	1.1173
+++ book.sgml	29 Mar 2012 21:02:50 -0000
@@ -345,6 +345,10 @@
 	<step>
 	  <para><command>make package</command></para>
 	</step>
+
+	<step>
+	  <para><command>make readme</command></para>
+	</step>
       </procedure>
 
       <para>Make sure that there are not any warnings issued in any of
@@ -576,7 +580,9 @@
 	  intended to be changed.  If you want to fix the extraction,
 	  fix <maketarget>do-extract</maketarget>, but never ever
 	  change the way <maketarget>extract</maketarget>
-	  operates!</para>
+	  operates! Additionally, the target <maketarget>post-deinstall
+	  </maketarget> is invalid and is not run by the ports
+	  infrastructure.</para>
       </note>
 
       <para>Now that you understand what goes on when the user types
--- .patch ends here ---

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