From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 9 11:25:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cisco.com (sword.cisco.com [161.44.208.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52ECD37B40A for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjt@cisco.com) Received: from sjt-u10.cisco.com (sjt-u10.cisco.com [10.85.30.63]) by cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22068 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:25:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (sjt@localhost) by sjt-u10.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/CISCO.WS.1.2) id OAA02813 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:25:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:25:47 -0400 From: Steve Tremblett To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ports management & subtree deletion? Message-ID: <20010709142547.B2752@sjt-u10.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have deleted directories from my ports tree because I'm not interested in them (ie. various foreign-language stuff, some of the scientific stuff etc.). I just tried to generate the README.html files with 'make readmes' from the /usr/ports directory, but it fails with the following error: sjt-bsd /usr/ports # make readmes ===> Creating README.html cd: can't cd to astro ^C sjt-bsd /usr/ports # At the point of the ^C, the make process is hung, but there is no CPU or IO activity. I don't know what broke this, since I have never run 'make readmes' before. My direct question is how to delete subtrees from /usr/ports while still allowing 'make readmes' to work? I have a feeling that it has something to do with /usr/ports/INDEX, but that is just a guess. I am also guessing that other ports facilities besides README.html generation won't work either. General build & installation works fine. As an aside for my own interest, how would I go about investigating this further? If a process is in a waiting state, how do I identify what it is waiting for and what other process is holding the resource? Thanks for any and all information you may share -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message