From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 20 22:22:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6F814BE2 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:22:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id AAA07420; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:22:29 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:22:29 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD Ports Team Subject: Re: man page wierdness In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: # I have an odd problem ... I'm updating the objc port to the latest # version (2.2.15) and nearly finished, except that the deinstall target # is giving me some very weird results. # # I'm installing a good handful of man pages, and they're listed in MAN1 # and MAN3, and they're being gzipped just fine (make package works fine). # When I run make deinstall, here's what I get: # # ===> Deinstalling for objc-2.2.15 # pkg_delete: file `/usr/local/man/man1/cvtimport.1.gz' doesn't really exist # pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list # is incorrectly specified?) You've removed the manpage entries from pkg/PLIST, yes? # Understand I deleted all the other manpages listed (they all look # identical except for the man page name). The files are really being # installed, and they're really being deinstalled, I checked this # carefully, so why the error? This is on FreeBSD-current, with a very # current ports tree. I tried splitting up bsd.port.mk into # bsd.port.pre.mk and bsd.port.post.mk but that had no effect. # # BTW, notice that bsd.port.pre.mk and bsd.port.post.mk are documented # nowhere? I finally found Satoshi's original mail on it, to guide me # into making that change. # # As soon as the pkg_delete thing gets figured out, I'll commit the new # port. objc has come a long, long way! # # ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- # Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data # chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. # 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | # Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) # (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). # ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- # # # # # # # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org # with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message