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Subject: Re: Ports collection problems...help???
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Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all.  I'm having problems with my ports collection on a 4.10
> server.  I need to keep the versions of the ports the same on these
> two boxes (for dev reasons), so I rsync'd /usr/ports...and on the
> "target" machine, I get the following error when I try to build
> something:
> 
> Makefile error: There is a COMMENTFILE in this port.
> COMMENTFILEs have been deprecated in
> favor of COMMENT variables.
> Please, rectify this.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> 
> But...there are no files with COMMENTFILE in their name on the system!  Help?!?!

If I recall correctly, pkg-comment is the filename you should look for.