From owner-freebsd-ports Thu May 4 23:16:44 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA14051 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 4 May 1995 23:16:44 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA14027 for ; Thu, 4 May 1995 23:16:25 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA05939; Fri, 5 May 1995 08:16:12 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA28136; Fri, 5 May 1995 08:16:09 +0200 Message-Id: <199505050616.IAA28136@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: URGENT: broken packages Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 08:16:09 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It was brought to my attention that some of the packages with long > packing lists (like > 4KB) were misteriously truncated during the > pkg_create stage. > > At this moment, ghostscript and jp-*mule are known to be broken. > People, please check your the packages of your own ports and send me a > note if it's broken. You can find them in ftp.freebsd.org's packages/ > subdirectory or thud:/e/ports/packages (same path from freefall). Damn. perl5 is broken in this way. I can't work on it now, but I can have a look over the weekend if someone doensnt do it first. OK? > The temporary fix is to remove all the filenames from the subdirectory > and just list it as a directory entry. For exmaple, if the > subdirectory "lib/foo" contains three files "bar", "baz", "bleah", > instead of I'll reckon I'll go this route... M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200