Makefile for rpm-4.0.4_4

[Lowell Gilbert]

RAW <solsyst at netscape.net> writes:

> This question is about a FreeBSD port that I cannot automake.
>
> Dear FreeBSDers;
>
> Tried to obtain, make and install Port rpm-4.0.4_4, on my new FreeBSD
> 6.0. Not there yet Looks like the Makefile program got down to
> "post-patch:", became unhappy, informed me with error code 127, (???)
> and quit.Make claimed that it could not find the shell script
> "configure" (see log below), but when I follow the path to the file,
> there it is. It left an "extract done.rpm-4" doc empty.
>
> How can I get the makefile to continue, find "configure" and finish
> the make job?
>
> P.S. I ran Make in a terminal window on my KDE desktop. Matters?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
> Make log:
>
> /usr/rpm/rpm4
> # make install clean
> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> => rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> => Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/.
> fetch: ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz: File
> unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> => Attempting to fetch from
> ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/.
> rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz                              100% of 5728 kB 2370
> Bps 00m00s
> ===>  Extracting for rpm-4.0.4_4
> => Checksum OK for rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz.
> ===>  Patching for rpm-4.0.4_4
> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for rpm-4.0.4_4
> -e 's:%%LOCALBASE%%:/usr/local:'
> /usr/rpm/rpm4/work/rpm-4.0.4/configure
> /usr/rpm/rpm4/work/rpm-4.0.4/beecrypt/configure
> -e: not found
> *** Error code 127
>
> Stop in /usr/rpm/rpm4.

You have a patch in the port skeleton which isn't appropriate to the
source that had been un-tarred from rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz.

How did you get your ports skeleton anyway?