Ports collection problems...help???

Brian McCann bjmccann at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 08:06:29 PDT 2005


Thanks!

On 19 Apr 2005 10:41:16 -0400, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Brian McCann <bjmccann at 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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