From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 23:06:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A8616A417 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:06:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from pollux.dfwlp.com (rrcs-64-183-212-244.sw.biz.rr.com [64.183.212.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD8913C457 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:06:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from rigel.dfwlp.com (rigel.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.81]) (authenticated bits=0) by pollux.dfwlp.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAON6bPv092062 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:06:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:07:05 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711241707.05859.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on pollux.dfwlp.com Subject: problems with self-built packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:06:59 -0000 for a while now, ive been experimenting with building a package of everything i build from ports, or via portupgrade, and then using said packages to quickly update other systems on my network. never had any problems, until recently. lately, it seems like a port here or there will be missing a critical piece from the bzip file thats created in ports/packages/All. i have seen this in the past few revisions of apache2.2(the rc script and data directory missing), and today, xorg-server did the same thing (this time, the file 'startx' was left out). does anyone else keep the packages they build, and if so, are you also seeing issues like this? -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com