Trying to create a port - help needed

[Max Laier]

On Sunday 08 August 2004 07:17, Rob B wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make a new port (first effort at this), and running the
> PREFIX test (make clean; make package PREFIX=/var/tmp/polipo), this is
> the failure :
>
> ==>   Registering installation for polipo-0.9.5
> ===>  Building package for polipo-0.9.5
> Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/polipo-0.9.5.tgz
> Registering depends:.
> Creating gzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/polipo-0.9.5.tgz'
> tar: man/man1/polipo.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: bin/polipo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: etc/polipo/config: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: etc/polipo/forbidden: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 512

Looks like you didn't populate /var/tmp/polipo beforehand. See the 
instructions at: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-autoplist.html

You have to run that mtree command for /var/tmp/polipo before you can use it 
as destination.

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