Unable to install new dialog for ports on FreeBsd 7.0

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 03:06:43PM +0530, Vikas Mahajan wrote:
> On 21 March 2013 13:26, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Try replacing the ports-mgmt/pkg/files/patch-Makefile by this one:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/patch-Makefile
> There was no file named patch-Makefile. I created new file with contents as
> given by you, but still getting same error.
> 
> > And tell me if it works.
> >
> > But please notice that 7.x is EOLed 28 feb, more and more the ports tree
> will
> > get incompatible, and if we want to follow the direction for FreeBSD 10
> (replace
> > our make by bmake) we will need to a day or another break totally
> compatibility
> > with 7.
> >
> > Consider upgrading your boxes.
> I repeated same steps on March 13th on some other box and everything works.
> Introduction of new dialog created problem. Steps, I followed to get latest
> ports:
> # portsnap fetch
> # mv /usr/ports /usr/ports_old
> # portsnap extract
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> Vikas Mahajan

I just tested on a 7.x it works out of the box. I don't know what is happening
on your system. or maybe portsnap for unknown reason is giving a wrong old
version.

regards,
Bapt
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