From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 1 10:10: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BD437B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (sorley [129.215.144.53]) by rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10565 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:09:57 GMT To: ports@freeBSD.org Subject: Problem with Ports (DOCNUMENTATION BUG) From: Robert Inder Phone: (+44) 7808 492 213 (Mobile)/ (+44) 131 650 2756 (AIAI) Organisation: AI Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh Disorganisation: Rampant Date: 01 Dec 2000 18:09:57 +0000 Message-ID: Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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