On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:55:43AM -0500, Derrick Edwards wrote: > Hi, > Using portmaster, I get the following error message. Ofcourse, based on the > specific app the first line changes but the second line is consistent. I am > currently getting this error message on several other ports on different > machines. > > tar: etc/authlib/authmysqlrc.dist: Cannot stat: No such file or directory > pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256 > > ===>>> Backup package creation failed for courier-authlib-mysql-0.58_2 > ===>>> Aborting update > > Please help
There's a file listed in the plist that no longer exists which causes pkg_create -b to fail. At the moment you can pass the -B flag to portmaster to avoid backup package creation. The next release of portmaster will prompt for an action so you can choose to ignore the error and continue. Ideally pkg_create should be made more robust in this case, but I failed to convince Doug to take that on as a project. :) It looks like a somewhat significant change in how pkg_create works since you'd have to check for the existence of all files and directories before passing them to tar. Alternatively, someone could rewrite pkg_create to use libarchive. -- Brooks
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