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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 05:59:28 -0400
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/19417: /usr/ports/misc/jargon/README.htmlneedsupdating now     ;-)
Message-ID:  <20000622055928.A59711@argon.gryphonsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04220802b5778820021c@[10.0.1.6]>; from blk@skynet.be on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 11:14:13AM %2B0200
References:  <200006211800.LAA49518@freefall.freebsd.org> <v04220805b576b6baa07e@[195.238.1.121]> <39510B23.EE122877@thehousleys.net> <v04220808b576bc72f99e@[195.238.1.121]> <39511146.42B5C5B0@thehousleys.net> <v04220800b576cd3be527@[195.238.1.121]> <20000621213938.H57917@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <v04220806b576e4d77080@[10.0.1.2]> <20000621210625.E47446@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <v04220802b5778820021c@[10.0.1.6]>

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On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 11:14:13AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 	Fair enough.  But if the "make update" process updated them only 
> if the version of the port changed, and only if the relevant 
> README.html file was present, then this would make everyone happy -- 
> right?

The problem is, finding out whether or not there are any README.html
files is cumbersome.  find(1) takes a good deal of time, you know.

> 	I'll try to tease out what all is done during a "make update", 
> and then see if I can figure out how to modify that to update the 
> README.html files if they are present.

Some folks may want a way to update all of them, or do an aggregate make
readmes, where, if there is no README.html, it is created.

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