Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:56:17 -0400 From: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com> To: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> Cc: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports management & subtree deletion? Message-ID: <20010709155617.D2752@sjt-u10.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <01070911423901.38118@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>; from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:42:39AM -0800 References: <20010709142547.B2752@sjt-u10.cisco.com> <01070911423901.38118@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
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+---- Beech Rintoul wrote: | You need to add a textfile named "refuse" to your sup directory. | List one per line: ports/directory name | Then delete the directories. If you have a stock file tree the sup directory | is in /usr/sup. | I already have that, and I've been using it for quite some time without problems. My refuse file (if it matters): doc/de doc/de_* doc/es doc/es_* doc/fr doc/fr_* doc/ja doc/ja_* doc/nl doc/nl_* doc/ru doc/ru_* doc/zh doc/zh_* ports/astro* ports/biology* ports/cad* ports/chinese* ports/french* ports/german* ports/hebrew* ports/japanese* ports/korean* ports/russian* ports/vietnamese* After creating the refuse file some months ago, I deleted the directories I wasn't interested in and then followed it with a successful cvsup. cvsup updates and port builds work fine. | | | On Monday 09 July 2001 10:25, Steve Tremblett wrote: | > 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 | | -- | Micro$oft: "Where can we make you go today?" | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission | \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 | X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 | / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | +---end quoted text--- -- Steve Tremblett Cisco Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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