From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 17:39:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stono.cs.cofc.edu (stono.cs.cofc.edu [153.9.17.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DF937C101 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:39:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimmy@cs.cofc.edu) Received: from [153.9.17.27] (burton.cs.cofc.edu [153.9.17.27]) by stono.cs.cofc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00863 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 20:34:08 -0400 X-Sender: jimmy@stono.cs.cofc.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 20:37:07 -0400 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "James B. Wilkinson" Subject: Making a package from a port Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I built the python1.5.2 port with one change from the configuration that it comes with: I changed WITH_TK? = yes to WITH_TK? = no. The port built ok, and none of the tests failed (although some were skipped, as expected). The next step is to copy this working python to about a dozen other machines in the same lab. It seemed to me that the right way to do that would be to make a package of the newly built port. So, thinking that I was following the instructions on FreeBSD.org's webpage, I typed, "make package" in /usr/ports/lang/python. It worked for a few seconds, and then quit because of an error. I'm sorry, I didn't write down the message exactly, but the jist of it was that tar couldn't find a file named "_tk. That makes it seem to me as if it's trying to make a package of the standard port *with* tk rather than my modified one. I suspect that I might get it to work if I edited the PLIST file by hand, but I'm hoping that there's a more automated (and therefore probably more accurate) way to get what I want. Any chance? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------- Jimmy Wilkinson | Perfesser of Computer Science jimmy@cs.CofC.edu | The College of Charleston (843) 953-8160 | Charleston SC 29424 If there is one word to describe me, that word would have to be "profectionist". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message