ports/149771: mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin port no longer installs binaries in /usr/local/bin

Peter Radcliffe pir-freebsd.org at pir.net
Wed Aug 18 14:30:07 UTC 2010


>Number:         149771
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin port no longer installs binaries in /usr/local/bin
>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:   Wed Aug 18 14:30:06 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Radcliffe
>Release:        8.0-RELEASE-p4
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD moek 8.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 #15: Tue Aug 17 00:56:29 BST 2010     pir at moek:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOEK  amd64
>Description:
I ran through port updates on the machine and after mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin was updated manually with portupgrade -f there were no binaries in /usr/local/bin.

Uninstalling the package gave:

pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/bin/sa-awl' doesn't exist
pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/bin/sa-check_spamd' doesn't exist
pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/bin/sa-compile' doesn't exist
pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/bin/sa-learn' doesn't exist
pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/bin/sa-update' doesn't exist
pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/bin/spamassassin' doesn't exist
pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/bin/spamc' doesn't exist
pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/bin/spamd' doesn't exist

>How-To-Repeat:
## Have the package installed and working.
$ cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin
$ make
$ make deinstall
$ make install
$ ls -aFl /usr/local/bin/spamassassin
ls: /usr/local/bin/spamassassin: No such file or directory
$ cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/work/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1
$ make pure_perl_install
$ ls -aFl /usr/local/bin/spamassassin
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  29678 Aug 18 14:26 /usr/local/bin/spamassassin*

>Fix:
It appears from /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/work/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1/Makefile that 'make install' here is doing "pure_site_install" from INSTALLDIRS=site.

"make pure_site_install" doesn't install the binaries.
"make pure_perl_install" does install the binaries.

I'm unclear why the difference but to get a working installation again I had to manually run:
  cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/work/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1
  make pure_perl_install
to get it to work again.

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