On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:22:15 +0100 Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2025/08/28 13:16, Marco van Hulten wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:08:35 +0200 Marco van Hulten wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have written a port that builds fine (and 'make test' and 'make fake' > > > are successful), but package installation fails: > > > > > > > > > mvanhult@detekti:.../geo/eccodes$ make install > > > ... > > > Link to /usr/ports/packages/amd64/ftp/eccodes-2.44pre.tgz > > > ===> Verifying specs: aec sz gfortran>=8 quadmath > > > ===> found aec.0.0 sz.0.0 gfortran.8.0 quadmath.3.0 > > > ===> Installing eccodes-2.44pre from /usr/ports/packages/amd64/all/ > > > > > > eccodes-2.44pre (processing)|... > > > > > > can't extract share/eccodes/definitions/bufr/tables/0/local/8/78/1, it's > > > not a file > > > pkg_add: Installation of eccodes-2.44pre failed, partial installation > > > recorded as partial-eccodes-2.44pre > > > *** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2266 > > > '/var/db/pkg/eccodes-2.44pre/+CONTENTS': @/usr/bin/env -i > > > PKG_TMPDIR=/var/tm...) > > > *** Error 2 in /usr/ports/mystuff/geo/eccodes > > > (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2712 'install': > > > @lock=eccodes-2.44pre; export _LOCK...) > > > > As per sensible suggestion from Stuart, port (WIP) attached. > > thanks. > > this collection of dirs and links would likely to be a problem for > updates anyway - pkg_add doesn't cope well with a path that changes > between link/dir. > > package(5) says this about the @symlink annotatiom, > > @symlink name > Added after a file entry by pkg_create(1) to record that the > entry is actually a symbolic link. > > I suspect this may specifically want a file (as opposed to a file/dir) > to try to avoid some cases where people run into the above problem with > uodates. > > I don't think we have any way to work around that.
If I understand correctly, this means that we should not have symlinks with directories as the targets. Should I ask upstream to ask if it's possible not to have symlinks to directories? Marco
