From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 13:08:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818FC16A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:08:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from central.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk (mattsnetwork.co.uk [82.152.151.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1B743D1F for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:08:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk) Received: from workstation1.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk (workstation1.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk [192.168.0.148]) (authenticated bits=0)iBOD8b65001321 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:08:37 GMT (envelope-from matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk) From: Matt Dawson To: Alexander Leidinger Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:08:36 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200412240943.10143.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> <20041224140040.6620fd73@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20041224140040.6620fd73@Magellan.Leidinger.net> X-Face: Zrm9At!%e{M_#Po+[-\; RFQih#L0/\!^6f8JS_1Nz,8`(@bR%|T,c)3:o6my`.sy$Rt)'^)ec9cWp!MmeH^Gp|Afl)BkcH1GENCBqb&wZ$cdqN27uYfD=jU@1:vWXf|)LmuVKo?1wuS68KeDX&3,#wZP2$N1Ao!_'mZOws67 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412241308.36966.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=2.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on central.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/640/Thu Dec 23 18:48:27 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j18:48:27 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j o X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: linux_base-8 upgrade requires immediate testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:08:42 -0000 On Friday 24 Dec 2004 13:00, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:43:09 +0000 > If you use "patch --quiet something in case something goes wrong. In your case it should print > something, since pkg-install.in is in the patch but not in your patched > tree. I thought that patch will create missing directories for you, but > it seems this isn't the case. So you have to create the files directory > in the port on your own before you apply the patch (search for a stray > pkg-install.in file in your ports tree ("find /usr/ports -name > pkg-install.in\* -print"), it think it's there somewhere and you can just > copy it into the right directory). Hi Alexander, You're not wrong. Apologies to the list for the noise. I had not applied the patch correctly the first time around. Now everything not only builds, but works flawlessly. I think I'll go hide in a corner and read the patch manpage ten times ;-) -- Matt Dawson. matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk MD2657-RIPE OpenNIC M_D9