On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:35:35 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Having been away from FreeBSD for a while, I'm still catching up with > all the changes that took place while I was on hiatus, so bear with me > here. :-) > > Trying to construct the ports' README.html files with: > > cd /usr/ports > make readmes > > Much to my surprise, this only creates README.html at the top level > and within each category, but nothing under the individual ports' > directories. When did this change, and why? Mailing list search has > turned up nothing useful on the subject. > > Or maybe I'm just doing it wrong? :-) > > Thanks. >
When you "make readmes" from the top level the per port files are created by a perl script I tried running perl /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes < /usr/ports/INDEX-8 and it didn't work. Since it's quite old I would guess a perl upgrade has probably broken it. [ Since this was cross-posted I've set a reply-to to "ports" where it belongs ] _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
