Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:39:33 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Carl <k0802647@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster issue: "The value of DISTDIR cannot be empty" Message-ID: <4E06E235.5020004@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4E059769.2050805@telus.net> References: 4DC0742E.1050104@gmail.com <4E059769.2050805@telus.net>
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On 06/25/2011 01:08, Carl wrote: > Well I'm not the OP, but I just experienced something very similar. This > arose when I was trying to deal with the combining of ports > print/amspsfnt and print/cmpsfont into print/font-amsfonts. As you can > see below, I had no problem upgrading print/amspsfnt, but the "DISTDIR > cannot be empty" error prevented doing the same for print/cmpsfont. > Although I admit to not showing some commands where I was hunting around > in the man page and looking at the portmaster script, I'm not aware of > doing anything significant other than what you see below, unless perhaps > I switched between one 'screen' window to another (ie. different shell > process). The fact that the problem was intermittent indicates something environmental. > It doesn't make sense to me, but as you can see it worked > after querying the value of DISTDIR. This should not make any difference. I'm sorry you were inconvenienced by this, but there is no data here that I can use to debug. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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