From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 19:07:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1AC16A419 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 19:07:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from javpra@yahoo.com) Received: from web53210.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web53210.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.49.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58ED213C4B5 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 19:07:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from javpra@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 47004 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Nov 2007 19:07:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=HXGS5mEYK9wxDd1fX+1aUtq1dxMFFmhwyIDac7FFj2UUiaC1TthY1NiCBZywC5ea8H0nqPpYEcap52MetqLSMhTh8pIIXBTKWlXm+OZ7UmNoZQ1ZKT+kb1FrtWTdU37pBljW6IscrSW/eadGvGpNwnIOYVZNxYMBsjk3cGKjix8=; X-YMail-OSG: AHDph6kVM1kkQMBybynPyjWfyQzbGp4gVEeuCiJBIG_AlZ9gMTP.eW_yxOHIjjju2Gj.wDDpCi4zBlPlk9wdW3x7jpYlP1kFZcjQJnp5dOx15zQSgb3K2Kc4YA3yzzHKpHmbMPxMM17dFZy1h7GVFg0ukQ-- Received: from [65.244.170.30] by web53210.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:07:38 PST Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:07:38 -0800 (PST) From: javier prats To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <10999.46767.qm@web53210.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Packaging issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:07:52 -0000 Good day everyone, I'm having an odd problem getting a port to package properly. When running `port test` on the program it goes through the installation process as expected ending with "registering installation". When `port` attempts to create a package i recieve many lines of errors. Below is a snippet of the errors. The port is successfully installed though, and i can even run it from the /usr/ports/sysutils/metamorphose/work/ directory. I thought maybe `port` was not seeing it in the "work" directory so I added ${WRKSRC}/metamorphose_1.1.0/ to all the files in pkg-plist and still had no luck. Does anyone have a suggestion? Can `port` be told to install the program elsewhere and can it be told where to look for something to package? tar: metamorphose_1.1.0/py2exe_setup.py: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: metamorphose_1.1.0/readme_en.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: metamorphose_1.1.0/readme_es.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: metamorphose_1.1.0/readme_fr.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: metamorphose_1.1.0/readme_pl.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: metamorphose_1.1.0/roman.py: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: metamorphose_1.1.0/smallHelp.py: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: ${PREFIX}/metamorphose_1.1.0/translations.html: Cannot stat: No such file or directory pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/metamorphose. ===> Error running make package ===> Files currently installed in PREFIX ===> Cleaning up Javier Prats __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com