Updating linux-f10-pango fails

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:34:30 -0500 Jerry wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 23:03:34 +0100
> Tijl Coosemans articulated:
>>>> Am 16.10.2013 21:17, schrieb Alexander Leidinger:
>>>>> A normal install creates (or used to create, so at least there
>>>>> are old systems with this) the link /compat -> /usr/compat, so
>>>>> maybe somewhere realpath comes into use and exhibits a problem
>>>>> here ("here" being the staging support in general, not limited to
>>>>> the port).
>>
>> I've looked into this a bit deeper.  The call to realpath in
>> pkg_create has been introduced in:
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=231300
>> 
>> This revision has been MFCed to stable/8 between releng/8.3 and
>> releng/8.4 and to stable/9 between releng/9.0 and releng/9.1.
>> 
>> The call has been disabled for absolute path names in
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=240682
>> 
>> This revision has been MFCed to stable/8 between releng/8.3 and
>> releng/8.4 and to stable/9 between releng/9.1 and releng/9.2.
>> 
>> So only FreeBSD 9.1 is affected by this.
>> 
>> People in this thread running stable should just update.  If you run
>> FreeBSD 9.1 a workaround is to switch to the new pkg tools.
> 
> I can confirm that the build fails on FreeBSD 8.3.
> 
> FreeBSD scorpio.seibercom.net 8.3-STABLE FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 17 13:52:14 EDT 2012     jerry at scorpio.seibercom.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCORPIO  amd64

The FreeBSD 8.3 release is not affected by this.  After that release and
before the FreeBSD 8.4 release there's a window of about 6 months where
the bug exists.  Your system is dated within that window so yes it is
affected, but updating it to FreeBSD 8.4 or latest 8-stable should fix it.