Error with PKG_INSTALL

[Thomas Dwyer]

UPDATE:

I removed the COMMENT= line from the Makefile and created a pkg-comment file
containing the text from the COMMENT= line.

make install now works correctly

It appears the pkg-install is having problems parsing the COMMENT= line?

Ideas?
Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Elsner" <peter at servplex.com>
To: "Thomas Dwyer" <tom at dwyers.ca>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: Error with PKG_INSTALL


> Looks like you forgot to run mergemaster...
>
> man mergemaster
>
> Peter
>
>
> At 04:23 PM 5/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >I was happily using FreeBSD 4.6 Stable.  I had successfully installed
> >several ports and downloaded .tar(s) without any problems.
> >
> >I recently ran cvsup with src-all in the supfile and upgraded to FreeBSD
> >4.8-STABLE.
> >
> >I did the proper steps to upgrade ..
> >     make buildworld
> >     make buildkernel ...
> >     make installkernel ...
> >     make installworld
> >
> >I updated my ports to the latest versions as well using cvsup.
> >
> >Now whenever I try to install any ports package I get the following
error:
> >
> >pkg_create: only one package name allowed ('interface' extraneous)
> >usage: pkg_create [-YNOhvy] [-P pkgs] [-p prefix] [-f contents] [-i
iscript]
> >                   [-I piscript] [-k dscript] [-K pdscript] [-r rscript]
> >                   [-t template] [-X excludefile] [-D displayfile]
> >                   [-m mtreefile] [-o origin] -c comment -d description
> >                   -f packlist pkg-filename
> >        pkg_create [-YNhvy] -b pkg-name [pkg-filename]
> >*** Error code 1
> >
> >Stop in /usr/ports/security/p5-Authen-PAM.
> >
> >Looking at the Makefile:
> >PORTNAME=       Authen-PAM
> >PORTVERSION=    0.14
> >CATEGORIES=     security perl5
> >MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
> >MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=     Authen
> >PKGNAMEPREFIX=  p5-
> >MAINTAINER=     des at FreeBSD.org
> >COMMENT=        A Perl interface to the PAM library
> >PERL_CONFIGURE= yes
> >CONFIGURE_ARGS= -DPAM_STRERROR_NEEDS_PAMH
> >MAN3PREFIX=     ${PREFIX}/lib/perl5/${PERL_VERSION}
> >MAN3=           Authen::FAQ.3 \
> >                 Authen::PAM.3
> >.include <bsd.port.mk>
> >
> >The "interface" comes from the COMMENT= line.  Note that this error
> >happens no matter what port I try to install.
> >
> >When I try to: make deinstall
> >I get this error:
> >===>  Deinstalling for p5-Authen-PAM-0.14
> >pkg_delete: package 'p5-Authen-PAM-0.14' doesn't have a prefix
> >*** Error code 1
> >
> >Stop in /usr/ports/security/p5-Authen-PAM.
> >
> >Again this error is the same for all ports.
> >
> >When I try to do pkg_info:
> >nexus# pkg_info p5-Authen-PAM-0.14
> >Information for p5-Authen-PAM-0.14:
> >
> >Comment:
> >ERROR: show_file: Can't open '+COMMENT' for reading!
> >
> >Description:
> >ERROR: show_file: Can't open '+DESC' for reading!
> >
> >I tried to remake and reinstall the pkg_install located in
> >/usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install  but that had no effect.
> >
> >Has something drastic changed in 4.8, or am I missing something major?
> >
> >Please help.
> >Tom
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