Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 02:34:11 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: mandree@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mail/mailman port installation failing Message-ID: <444n09f5zw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20140529041628.GE12961@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> (John Marshall's message of "Thu, 29 May 2014 14:16:28 %2B1000") References: <20140528063641.GF9361@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au> <20140529041628.GE12961@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au>
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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...
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