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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:21:02 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ports collection problems...help???
Message-ID:  <20050419182102.GA44704@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <443btmzv5f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <2b5f066d0504190604335753ba@mail.gmail.com> <443btmzv5f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:41:16AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com> writes:
>=20
> > 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:
> >=20
> > Makefile error: There is a COMMENTFILE in this port.
> > COMMENTFILEs have been deprecated in
> > favor of COMMENT variables.
> > Please, rectify this.
> > *** Error code 1
> >=20
> >=20
> > But...there are no files with COMMENTFILE in their name on the system! =
 Help?!?!
>=20
> If I recall correctly, pkg-comment is the filename you should look for.

This means that you're not syncing the ports properly, e.g. you're not
using rsync --delete.

Kris

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