From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 6 6:28:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from terrapin.ru.ac.za (terrapin.ru.ac.za [146.231.128.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3472A15130 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 06:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org) Received: from duca.dialup.ru.ac.za ([146.231.98.24] helo=mithrandr.moria.org) by terrapin.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11Yr76-000Jbz-00 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 06 Oct 1999 15:28:13 +0200 Received: (qmail 33060 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Oct 1999 12:39:02 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 14:39:02 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: John Baldwin Cc: mwlucas@gltg.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make docs broken? Message-ID: <19991006143902.B21324@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <199910061050.GAA19602@blackhelicopters.org> <199910061108.HAA19872@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199910061108.HAA19872@server.baldwin.cx>; from John Baldwin on Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:08:33AM -0400 Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 1999-10-06 (07:08), John Baldwin wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/handbook -> > > /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook > > rm: handbook: is a directory > > *** Error code 1 > > Delete your old copies of the docs in > /usr/share/doc/{faq,handbook,tutorials} before running the install. > It's trying to create symlinks from the old locations to the new > locations but the old locations still exist. You'll only have to do > this once. I'll fix this now, using rm -rf, not rm -f (which is why the "rm: handbook: is a directory" message is shown). Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message