Problem upgrading misc/help2man: missing language files

[Bas Smeelen]

On 10/02/2012 10:59 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I am unable to upgrade misc/help2man, required by autoconf and other ports that I want to upgrade that depend on perl and/or png.
>
> Currently installed version of help2man is 1.40.12 and new version is 1.40.13
>
> I get a bundle of error messages like
>
>
> Extracting help2man (with variable substitutions)
>
> ===>>> Creating a backup package for old version help2man-1.40.12
> tar: lib/bindtextdomain.so: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

Hi Tom

Isn't this just the creation of the backup package that fails?
I encounter errors like this sometimes, but portmaster goed on installing 
the newer version.

> tar: share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/de/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/el/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/eo/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/fi/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/fr/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/hr/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/it/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/pl/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/pt_BR/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/ru/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/sr/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/sv/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/uk/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/vi/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: man/ja/man1/help2man.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
> pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
>
>
> So here I am stuck.  I don't know whether the fault is with my installed help2man-1.40.12 or the distfile for 1.40.13.

Stuck? Or does portmaster continue as it should?
>
> How do I get past this impasse?  I suppose I could use "-x misc/help2man" in portmaster commands, but don't really want to do that if 1.40.13 is good but my installation of 1.40.12 is corrupted.
>
> Tom
>
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