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Date:      19 Apr 2005 10:41:16 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ports collection problems...help???
Message-ID:  <443btmzv5f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <2b5f066d0504190604335753ba@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2b5f066d0504190604335753ba@mail.gmail.com>

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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.



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