portmaster 1.21 - "cannot create" messages

John Marshall John.Marshall at riverwillow.com.au
Thu Oct 11 03:16:40 PDT 2007


Doug,

I've been updating some ports today with portmaster 1.21 and am seeing 
lots of complaints of "No such file or directory".

I've had a quick look and I *think* that portmaster 1.21 only creates 
DI_FILES if not invoked with -D; and then goes ahead and tries to append 
to it anyway. The /var/db/ports/[port]/distfiles files are being created 
  OK.

The following extracts are from two different 6.2-RELEASE servers.

-------------------------------------------------
portmaster -Da

::

===>  Cleaning for php5-session-5.2.4_1
===>>> Updating package dependency entry for each dependent port

===>>> Upgrade for php5-session-5.2.4 to php5-session-5.2.4_1 succeeded
/usr/local/sbin/portmaster: cannot create : No such file or directory
/usr/local/sbin/portmaster: cannot create : No such file or directory
/usr/local/sbin/portmaster: cannot create : No such file or directory

===>>> Returning to update check of installed ports

::

===>  Cleaning for php5-xml-5.2.4_1
===>>> Updating package dependency entry for each dependent port

===>>> Upgrade for php5-xml-5.2.4 to php5-xml-5.2.4_1 succeeded
/usr/local/sbin/portmaster: cannot create : No such file or directory
/usr/local/sbin/portmaster: cannot create : No such file or directory
/usr/local/sbin/portmaster: cannot create : No such file or directory

===>>> Returning to update check of installed ports
===>>> Update check of installed ports complete
-------------------------------------------------


-------------------------------------------------
portmaster -D apache-2.2.6

::

===>  Cleaning for apache-2.2.6_2
===>>> Updating package dependency entry for each dependent port

===>>> Upgrade for apache-2.2.6 to apache-2.2.6_2 succeeded
/usr/local/sbin/portmaster: cannot create : No such file or directory
/usr/local/sbin/portmaster: cannot create : No such file or directory

===>>> pkg-message for apache-2.2.6_2
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Thanks again for a great ports management tool.

-- 
John Marshall


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