On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 02:44:22PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:24:44AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > > I am attempting to update an existing port. When running "portlint -A" > > I am receiving an error message. > > > > # portlint -A > > WARN: Makefile: for new port, make $FreeBSD$ tag in comment section empty, > > to make CVS happy. > > WARN: Makefile: new ports should not set PORTREVISION. > > FATAL: README.html: for safety, be sure to cleanup README.html files before > > committing the port. > > 1 fatal error and 2 warnings found. > > > > The first two are no problem. it is the third one "FATAL" that I cannot > > understand. It never appeared before when I was updating this port. Is > > this really a "FATAL" error or can I simply disregard it? The port > > builds and installed fine. > > Did you run a "make describe" sometime during the testing of the port?
Uhm, yes, of course, as Matthew Seaman pointed out, it's "make readmes" that will generate README.html :) > It will generate README.html and a couple of other files, none of > which are supposed to be part of the actual port - all of them are > autogenerated when the need arises (e.g. building INDEX). > > So compare all the files in your port's directory with the files from > a previous, known-good version of the port, see which are the new ones > and if you wrote them or some tool generated them :) If you didn't > write them, chances are you can safely remove them and things will work > just fine :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@space.bg r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence was in the past tense.
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