policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Tue Feb 3 12:21:24 PST 2009


On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:49:29 Jason Morgan wrote:
> On 2009.02.03 10:24:55, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:57:45AM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > when building ports/sysutils/policykit on FBSD 7.1-stable i386 I get:
> > >
> > > Making all in man
> > > gmake[3]: Entering directory
> > > `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/PolicyKit-0.9/d oc/man'
> > > /usr/local/bin/xsltproc -nonet
> > > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/curren
> > > t/manpages/docbook.xsl polkit-auth.xml
> > > I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
> > > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/releas
> > > e/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
> > > warning: failed to load external entity
> > > "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/
> > > xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"
> > > cannot parse
> > > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook
> > > .xsl
> > > gmake[3]: *** [polkit-auth.1] Error 4
> > > gmake[3]: Leaving directory
> > > `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/PolicyKit-0.9/do c/man'
> > > gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> > > `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/PolicyKit-0.9/do c'
> > > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> > > `/usr/ports/sysutils/policykit/work/PolicyKit-0.9' gmake: *** [all]
> > > Error 2
> > > *** Error code 2
> > >
> > > Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/policykit.
> > >
> > >
> > > What shall I do?
> >
> > The file seems to be there, I can get to it with lynx.
>
> I am having the same problem (I posted a related question to the list
> last night). Anything dealing with XML and docbook is failing to
> build. I have managed to install a few of the problem ports by adding
> the package instead, but when I left the house this morning, yet
> another related package had failed.

Do it a few times in a row, the sourceforge servers are overloaded apparently 
and return false errors.
Either that, or familiarize yourself with XML categories, download the file 
and update the XML cat file to use a local version rather then remote for 
that particular file.
See xmlcatmgr(1) for details (textproc/xmlcatmgr).

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.


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