From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 9 19:59:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6919B16A412; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:59:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derrick@uniquestrength.net) Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.192.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A06713C45D; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:59:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derrick@uniquestrength.net) Received: from mail.uniquestrength.net ([68.55.97.199]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20070109195909m1400fdmlde>; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:59:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.uniquestrength.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.uniquestrength.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B3A5C48; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:48:00 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uniquestrength.net Received: from mail.uniquestrength.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.uniquestrength.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9h7zkhVQyqe7; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:47:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.109] (unknown [10.10.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.uniquestrength.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6EF5C38; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:47:51 -0500 (EST) From: Derrick Edwards To: Brooks Davis , Eric Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:10:49 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200701091155.44572.derrick@uniquestrength.net> <20070109170238.GB88663@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20070109170238.GB88663@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701091510.50964.derrick@uniquestrength.net> Cc: dougb@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portmaster Help X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:59:10 -0000 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