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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org>
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Subject: Re: mail/mailman port installation failing
References: <20140528063641.GF9361@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au>
 <20140529041628.GE12961@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au>
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 02:34:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20140529041628.GE12961@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> (John
 Marshall's message of "Thu, 29 May 2014 14:16:28 +1000")
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John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> writes:

> After helpful off-list mail from mandree@ which pointed at this being a
> local problem, I eventually found the following line in
> /usr/local/etc/ports.conf.
>
>   mail/mailman: CONFIGURE_ARGS=--with-var-prefix=/data/mailman
>
> One of those tweaks one implements to accommodate a local customization,
> and doesn't even remember it's there 6 or 7 years later.
>
> It would appear that this kind of thing doesn't play nicely with the new
> staging environment.  After removing that line from ports.conf and
> rebuilding the port, it installed happily.  Obviously I then had to
> reshuffle my data directories manually.

Doesn't that mean that the plist was always wrong on that machine
anyway? That could leave stale files around...