Dear FreeBSD,
Did something happen to the location for the "pkg-descr" so
that ports can't find it? The following happens to me a lot,
for many packages:
===> Installing for gmake-3.81_1
===> Generating temporary packing list
** Missing pkg-descr for gmake-3.81_1.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/open-motif.
*** Error code 1
A workaround is to add this package with pkg_add -rv, but this
is tiresome, since I must do it many times to finish a complicated
port (this time the port is java/jdk15).
This happened on a new install of
FreeBSD poweredge.etaq.com 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #0: Thu Nov 16 05:12:08
UTC 2006 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
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On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:27 -0600, Wayne M. Barnes wrote:> Dear FreeBSD, > > Did something happen to the location for the "pkg-descr" so > that ports can't find it? The following happens to me a lot, > for many packages: > > ===> Installing for gmake-3.81_1 > ===> Generating temporary packing list > ** Missing pkg-descr for gmake-3.81_1. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/open-motif. > *** Error code 1 > > A workaround is to add this package with pkg_add -rv, but this > is tiresome, since I must do it many times to finish a complicated > port (this time the port is java/jdk15). > > This happened on a new install of > FreeBSD poweredge.etaq.com 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #0: Thu Nov 16 05:12:08 > UTC 2006 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 >%ll /usr/ports/devel/gmake/pkg-descr -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 215 May 18 2000 /usr/ports/devel/gmake/pkg-descr If the file doesn't exist, is there anything unusual re the maintenance of the ports tree on that system? Perhaps old files were pruned, etc.? Refreshing the ports tree ought to fix it. Wayne P.S. This probably ought to have gone to ports@ or questions@.