Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:35:26 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-plist problems Message-ID: <B25562CB0DFBA490080B2529@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <1121793497.3319.3.camel@cream.xbsd.org> References: <EBCC58430C7721C861BB2875@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <1121793497.3319.3.camel@cream.xbsd.org>
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--On Tuesday, July 19, 2005 19:18:17 +0200 Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>=20
wrote:
> Le Lundi 18 juillet 2005 =E0 16:13 -0500, Paul Schmehl a =E9crit :
>> I'm working on a new port, and I'm having a strange problem with
>> pkg-plist. I created pkg-plist per the instructions in Chapter 19 of
>> the Porters Handbook. When I run make deinstall
>> PREFIX=3D/var/tmp/port-name, the deinstall complains that the files in
>> $DOCSDIR don't exist. Yet they do.
>>
>> Here's the error I'm getting (in part):
>>
>> pkg_delete: file '/var/tmp/sguild/share/doc/sguil-sensor' doesn't really
>> exist
>> pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory
>> '/var/tmp/sguild/share/doc/sguil-sensor'
>> pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list =
is
>> incorrectly specified?)
>
> You should have posted the entire port, but reading that, I
> guess you're using PORTDOCS in Makefile. PORTDOCS automatically
> adds "@dirrm ${DOCSDIR:S,^${PREFIX}/,,}" to the packing list, so
> the one you added in pkg-plist isn't necessary.
>
That's exactly what the problem was. I removed the lines from pkg-plist=20
and ran install and deinstall and checked for the docdir, and it was=20
installed and removed every time.
Gracias mucho
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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