From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 9 12:42:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C4D737B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF782B6; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:42:39 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Steve Tremblett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports management & subtree deletion? Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:42:39 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010709142547.B2752@sjt-u10.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20010709142547.B2752@sjt-u10.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01070911423901.38118@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 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. Beech 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