HEADS UP: ports r420340 breaks installation and packaging of empty directories

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 17 21:12:29 UTC 2016



+--On 17 août 2016 22:56:36 +0200 Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| I just got bitten by a nasty side effect of r420340 [1] ("Move USE_BDB
| and PLIST_DIRSTRY to the unsupported section, all the ports have been
| converted").
| 
| The effect is that empty directories don't get installed or packaged
| anymore, and this can lead to all kinds of interesting errors.  In my
| case, for example, xmlcatmgr failed to install correctly, because it
| couldn't find /usr/local/share/xml.
| 
| Please revert this commit locally, or don't update to r420340 for now,
| until this problem gets fixed.  I submitted bug 211953 [2] in the mean
| time.
| 
| -Dimitry
| 
| [1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/420340
| [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/211953

Fixed.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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