Ports collection problems...help???

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:41:16AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert 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.

This means that you're not syncing the ports properly, e.g. you're not
using rsync --delete.

Kris
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