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? 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 If this sentence didn't exist, somebody would have invented it.
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