From 5c8f4cd9f05043e01fce6d3ebc52a5a272549d09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 07:47:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] In the Automated plist generation chapter, note that an empty
 pkg-plist file should be created before attempting a 'make install'.

Reported by:	sexbear <sexbear@tmu.edu.tw>
---
 en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
index fdedffde3e..07d267d349 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
@@ -6165,6 +6165,10 @@ pre-install:
 
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>(cd /var/tmp/<replaceable>port-name</replaceable> && find -d * -type d) | sort -r &gt; OLD-DIRS</userinput></screen>
 
+      <para>Create an empty <filename>pkg-plist</filename> file:</para>
+
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>touch pkg-plist</userinput></screen>
+
       <para>If your port honors <makevar>PREFIX</makevar> (which it should)
         you can then install the port and create the package list.</para>