From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 02:04:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1FC16A421 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:04:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A57113C448 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:04:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.09) with ESMTP id lAP24BEx003654 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:04:11 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.5.249] (lodovico.cs.washington.edu [128.208.5.249]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.09) with ESMTP id lAP24BJP022418 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:04:11 -0800 Message-ID: <4748D803.1040807@u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:03:47 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Horne References: <200711241707.05859.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <200711241707.05859.freebsd@dfwlp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.3.310218, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.2.313940, Antispam-Data: 2007.11.24.173950 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='BODY_SIZE_800_899 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with self-built packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:04:25 -0000 Jonathan Horne wrote: > for a while now, ive been experimenting with building a package of everything > i build from ports, or via portupgrade, and then using said packages to > quickly update other systems on my network. never had any problems, until > recently. lately, it seems like a port here or there will be missing a > critical piece from the bzip file thats created in ports/packages/All. > > i have seen this in the past few revisions of apache2.2(the rc script and data > directory missing), and today, xorg-server did the same thing (this time, the > file 'startx' was left out). > > does anyone else keep the packages they build, and if so, are you also seeing > issues like this? > I haven't tried, but based on what you're saying it sounds like the plist is incorrect or something.. pkg_create(1) / port Makefile related bug? -Garrett