Date: 01 Dec 2000 18:09:57 +0000 From: Robert Inder <R.Inder@ed.ac.uk> To: ports@freeBSD.org Subject: Problem with Ports (DOCNUMENTATION BUG) Message-ID: <f51itp42etm.fsf@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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I've just had a problem with a port. I am running FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE. I fetched the port for linux-netscape-6, and did a "make". After the make, I tried to "make install", and it failed because it could not find the file list. A friend told me that whereas in the past, ports had a "pkg" directory containing "DESCR", "COMMENT" and "PLIST" files, they now just have pkg-descr, pkg-comment and pkg-plist files. The netscape package had the latter, and my system was looking for the former. Simply making the "pkg" directory and copying the files appropriately seemed to fix the problem. BUT.... this, surely, isn't the right answer, is it? There is, presumably, some "official" way to update my system's ports processing make files. And the obvious place to look for how to do this is the Ports pages at www.FreeBSD.org. But there is nothing there. There is not even a mention of the possible problem, and none of the update kits seem to be relevant... I strongly urge you to add something to say that this problem is possible, and a pointer to how to fix it. Robert. P.S. Keep up the good work! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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