docs/96639: [patch] suggestion to committer's guide that should have a description about remove ports

[Erwin Lansing]

The following reply was made to PR docs/96639; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Erwin Lansing <erwin at FreeBSD.org>
To: Cheng-Lung Sung <clsung at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, clsung at gmail.com
Subject: Re: docs/96639: [patch] suggestion to committer's guide that should have a description about remove ports
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 09:33:53 +0200

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 On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:58:44AM +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote:
 >=20
 > >Description:
 > 	Committer's guide only describe few about remove ports (in repo sections=
 ).
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > >Fix:
 >=20
 > --- en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml.orig	Thu Apr 2=
 0 09:49:55 2006
 > +++ en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml	Tue May  2 11:=
 52:02 2006
 > @@ -2423,6 +2423,40 @@
 >        </qandadiv>
 > =20
 >        <qandadiv>
 > +	<title>Removing an Existing Port</title>
 > +
 > +	<qandaentry>
 > +	  <question>
 > +	    <para>How do I remove an existing port?</para>
 > +	  </question>
 > +
 > +	  <answer>
 > +	    <para>First, please read the section about repository
 > +	        copies. Make sure there is no dependency on the port
 > +	        in the ports colloection, then perform the following:</para>
 
                          collection
 
 > +
 > +	    <procedure>
 > +	      <step>
 > +	        <para>Remove the port via <command>cvs remove</command>.</para>
 > +	      </step>
 > +	      <step>
 > +	        <para>Remove <makevar>SUBDIR</makevar> listing of the port=20
 > +	          in the parent directory <filename>Makefile</filename>.</para>
 > +	      </step>
 > +	      <step>
 > +	        <para>Remove the module entry in
 > +	          <filename>CVSROOT/modules</filename>.</para>
 > +	      </step>
 > +	      <step>
 > +	        <para>Add an entry to
 > +	          <filename>ports/MOVED</filename>.</para>
 > +	      </step>
 > +	    </procedure>
 
 I think it's good to mention which files need to be changed here as a
 reference, but a much easier way to do this is to use the rmport script
 vd wrote and added to /usr/ports/Tools/script recently.
 
 Cheers,
 -erwin
 
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