Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:10:49 -0500 From: Derrick Edwards <derrick@uniquestrength.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Eric <heli@mikestammer.com> Cc: dougb@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portmaster Help Message-ID: <200701091510.50964.derrick@uniquestrength.net> In-Reply-To: <20070109170238.GB88663@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <200701091155.44572.derrick@uniquestrength.net> <20070109170238.GB88663@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Tuesday 09 January 2007 12:02, Brooks Davis wrote: Thanks Guys that did the trick. I have been having this problem for weeks. Really appreciate the assistance. v/r Derrick > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:55:43AM -0500, Derrick Edwards wrote: > > Hi, > > Using portmaster, I get the following error message. Ofcourse, based on > > the specific app the first line changes but the second line is > > consistent. I am currently getting this error message on several other > > ports on different machines. > > > > tar: etc/authlib/authmysqlrc.dist: Cannot stat: No such file or directory > > pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256 > > > > ===>>> Backup package creation failed for courier-authlib-mysql-0.58_2 > > ===>>> Aborting update > > > > Please help > > There's a file listed in the plist that no longer exists which causes > pkg_create -b to fail. At the moment you can pass the -B flag to > portmaster to avoid backup package creation. The next release of > portmaster will prompt for an action so you can choose to ignore the > error and continue. > > Ideally pkg_create should be made more robust in this case, but I failed > to convince Doug to take that on as a project. :) It looks like a > somewhat significant change in how pkg_create works since you'd have to > check for the existence of all files and directories before passing them > to tar. Alternatively, someone could rewrite pkg_create to use > libarchive. > > -- Brooks
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