do-install fails when files in .PLIST.mktmp are truncated

[Freddy Andersen]

Thank you ben! you have no idea how helpful the make and makeplist was for me :) the issues was not with my Makefile but rather that I did not understand what roll the pkg-plist had in the do-install process. I’m all good now and my updated hadoop2 builds and install … 

Now I just need to figure how I can get this sent to upstream after some testing on my end.



> On Jan 8, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Ben Woods <woodsb02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> First off, since this is your first attempt to update a port, welcome! There may be a slight hurdle to get over to understanding port basics, but once you get there it is quite rewarding.
> 
> This resource is priceless, read it and refer back to it often:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html>
> 
> Also, the great thing about ports is you can read all of the shell scripts that are doing the work if you don't understand something (such as copytree_share), by grepping through the files here:
> /usr/ports/Mk/
> 
> Lastly, the mailing lists do not have the formatting features of the forums, so no need for the [FILE][/FILE] stuff.
> 
> I would say the most obvious thing for your port is the need to update the pkg-plist file which lists ever file your port will install on the system. Easy way to test this with your updated port is to do the following:
> # cd PORTDIR
> # make clean
> # make
> # make makeplist
> 
> That will dump the new plist to the console standard output, but doesn't actually update the pkg-plist for you (you have to do that by redirecting the output to the file). But note, you need to follow the instructions of the first line (delete the first line, and check the output of the rest of the file looks reasonable). I would redirect the output to a new plist file and compare the difference before overwriting the main plist file:
> # make makeplist > pkg-plist.new
> # diff -u pkg-plist pkg-plist.new
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
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> From: Benjamin Woods
> woodsb02 at gmail.com <mailto:woodsb02 at gmail.com>