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Date:      Wed, 1 Feb 2006 01:48:36 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        cvs-ports@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports Makefile ports/Mk bsd.port.mk bsd.port.subdir.mk ports/converters/mule-ucs Makefile ports/converters/mule-ucs-emacs20 Makefile ports/databases/bbdb Makefile ports/databases/bbdb-emacs20 Makefile ports/databases/gnats4 ...
Message-ID:  <20060201064836.GA94878@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 05:15:51PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-Jan-31 14:20:33 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 05:28:42AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2006-Jan-28 02:11:36 +0000, Mark Linimon wrote:
> >> >  Modified files:
> >> >    .                    Makefile=20
> >> >    Mk                   bsd.port.mk bsd.port.subdir.mk=20
> >> ...
> >> >  Revision  Changes    Path
> >> >  1.95      +17 -11    ports/Makefile
> >> >  1.524     +43 -40    ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
> >> >  1.64      +6 -4      ports/Mk/bsd.port.subdir.mk
> >>=20
> >> I have my ports tree in /home, rather than /usr and since these
> >> changes, I am getting extensive errors from 'portsdb -uU':
> >
> >What configuration variables are you setting?  e.g. PORTSDIR, etc.
>=20
> /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:
>   ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||=3D '/usr/ports'
>   ENV['PACKAGES'] ||=3D ENV['PORTSDIR'] + '/packages'
>   ENV['PKG_PATH'] ||=3D ENV['PACKAGES'] + '/All'
>   ENV['PKG_TMPDIR'] ||=3D '/var/tmp'
>   ENV['PORTS_DBDIR'] ||=3D '/var/db/ports'
>=20
> server% ls -l /usr/ports=20
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  11  1 Jan  2005 /usr/ports -> /home/ports
>=20
> Nothing relevant in the environment.
>=20
> I've done some checking and if I change PORTSDIR to /home/ports then
> the messages disappear.  This implies that PORTSDIR must be the
> absolute pathname - which isn't mentioned in the documentation.

There's an old PR about it:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/35767

I'm actually surprised to hear that it started working at some point.

Kris

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