Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 07:53:12 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail/mailman port installation failing Message-ID: <53881CC8.2010809@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <444n09f5zw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <20140528063641.GF9361@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> <20140529041628.GE12961@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> <444n09f5zw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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Am 29.05.2014 08:34, schrieb Lowell Gilbert: > John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> writes: > >> After helpful off-list mail from mandree@ which pointed at this being a >> local problem, I eventually found the following line in >> /usr/local/etc/ports.conf. >> >> mail/mailman: CONFIGURE_ARGS=--with-var-prefix=/data/mailman >> >> One of those tweaks one implements to accommodate a local customization, >> and doesn't even remember it's there 6 or 7 years later. >> >> It would appear that this kind of thing doesn't play nicely with the new >> staging environment. After removing that line from ports.conf and >> rebuilding the port, it installed happily. Obviously I then had to >> reshuffle my data directories manually. > > Doesn't that mean that the plist was always wrong on that machine > anyway? That could leave stale files around... > On that machine, yes. On the other hand, I doubt it's reasonably possible to cater for arbitrarily injected special configurations with the PLIST - in such situations, the port itself would have to support separate /var prefixes or data directories so it sets the option and adjusts the plist accordingly.
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