ports/108804: Portmanager not working after 20070205 ports change

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Mon Feb 5 17:30:21 UTC 2007


>Number:         108804
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Portmanager not working after 20070205 ports change
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 05 17:30:20 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gerard Seibert
>Release:        FreeBSD-6.2
>Organization:
Seibercom.net
>Environment:
FreeBSD scorpio.seibercom.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 18 23:52:11 EST 2007     gerard at scorpio.seibercom.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCORPIO  i386

>Description:
There was a change in the ports system - /usr/ports/UPDATING 20070205 - which now renders portmanager unable to run correctly. While it is possible to update a single port; i.e., "portmanager /path/to-port/", if I attempt to do a general ports update; i.e., "portmanager -u", I receive the following error message:

percentDone-=>0 = 100 - ( 100 * ( oldPortsDbQTY-=>6 / oldPortsDbTOTALIZER-=>6 )) cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager rBsdPortMkPatch 0.4.1_7 error: bsd.port.mk /usr/ports/Mk unable to restored from back up cp /usr/local/share/portmanager/bsd.port.mk-BACKUP /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk

I tried deinstalling portmanager and then installing it from its new port directory; however, that failed to alleviate the problem. 
>How-To-Repeat:
Simply try running: portmanager -u
>Fix:
Unknown
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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