Re: Attempting to convert -CURRENT host to pkgbase, fails on none-existent kernel config.

On 8/22/26 03:44, Alastair Hogge wrote:
> On 2026-08-14 19:34, Lexi Winter wrote:
>> Alastair Hogge wrote in <1be98630bb8ef5f3cc1c665ca2f3961d@riseup.net>:
>>> I am attempting to convert my build host/NAS to pkgbase. In the host's
>>> make.conf I have:
>>> KERNCONF= FAFNIR FAFNIR-DEBUG GENERIC GENERIC-NODEBUG
>>> During the "make packages" phase, it fails because it cannot find
>>> DIREWOLF_DEBUG in /sys/amd64/conf.
>>
>> what package is looking for this file?  is it possible that you deleted
>> this file on disk but didn't remove it from Git?  in that case, src-sys
>> will fail as it uses the Git index to determine what files to package.
> 
> You are probably right about that, I nuked ${SRC} and re-applied local
> diffs and that error is gone.
>  
>> if that's not the issue, please make available the full output from
>> buildkernel, buildworld and (update-)packages.
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla//show_bug.cgi?id=297183
> 
> 
> 

bugzilla was having backend fetch problems preventing subnimttal of a
comment, so I report here:


From what I see the fatal status is just a consequence of having
DEVELOPER_MODE enabled:

ctx.developer_mode = pkg_object_bool(pkg_config_get("DEVELOPER_MODE"));

and:

libpkg/pkg.c

. . .
int
pkg_addfile_attr(struct pkg *pkg, const char *path, const char *sum,
		 const char *uname, const char *gname, mode_t perm,
		 u_long fflags, time_t mtime,
		 const char *symlink_target, bool check_duplicates)
{
. . .
	struct pkg_file *existing = pkg_filev_insert_sorted(&pkg->files, f);
	if (existing != NULL) {
		pkg_file_free_content(&f);
		if (check_duplicates) {
			if (ctx.developer_mode) {
				pkg_emit_error("duplicate file listing: %s, fatal (developer mode)",
path);
				return (EPKG_FATAL);
			} else {
				pkg_emit_error("duplicate file listing: %s, ignoring", path);
			}
		}
		return (EPKG_OK);
	}

	return (EPKG_OK);
. . .


If you can operate with DEVELOPER_MODE disabled, the specific
type of stopping operation behavior should not occur.


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Mark Millard
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