Strange Package Configuration?

[Matt Lager]

I recently was upgrading my FreeBSD systems, both host systems and 
jails, and all of a sudden came across a problem in the jail 
environments where it was attempting to create a package from the port. 
My jail environments have always had PACKAGE=/var/ports/packages in the 
/etc/make.conf file, but I just checked and none of my jail systems have 
ever had a /var/ports/packages.

I'm trying to figure out what changed all of a sudden so I can make sure 
I'm accounting for it in my procedures...

An example of the original error can be found at:

http://resources.rock-pond.com/build.log

/basejail/usr/ports is my R/O global ports tree for all jails, so I was 
confused as to why it wasn't using /var/ports/packages which was set in 
make.conf, then I noticed the directory wasn't there.

I've been able to fix this, but I've never seen this in all my years, so 
just wondering what may have changed.

Thanks for any info!

Matt Lager

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