On Mon May 23 2005 11:37 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon May 23 2005 9:30 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > About to synch up the entire source tree with RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE. > > > > Earlier I created a refuse file, (/var/db/sup/refuse), when I > > > > upgraded my doc and ports collection in 5.3 but remember reading > > > > somewhere that a refuse file was not necessarily recommended when > > > > updating an entire source tree. Is that still the case? > > > > > > You may not be able to build your own INDEX, and dependency-tracking > > > packages may get confused if the INDEX doesn't match the installed > > > ports, but things won't necessarily break. But you're on your own; > > > please don't report problems unless you know they occur with a fully > > > updated tree. > > > > That's the sort of warning I remember. Just couldn't readily understand > > why the Handbook still recommends creating it. > > It recommends refuse files for the doc tree, which is *very* useful, > because most users only want one language. On the ports tree, it > mentions that some people do it, but doesn't recommend it as a general > policy. It will work a lot of the time, and the ports makefiles warn > about having a complete ports collection before reporting certain > kinds of errors. > _______________________________________________
Thanks again. I'll just use it for the doc tree for now. Bob _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
