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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:07:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      javier prats <javpra@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Packaging issue
Message-ID:  <10999.46767.qm@web53210.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

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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


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