devel/boost-jam fails to build: pkg-descr missing

[fonz]

During a recent ports upgrade (with up-to-date ports tree) the following happened when devel/boost-jam had to be installed as a dependency:

===>>> Starting check for runtime dependencies
===>>> Gathering dependency list for devel/boost-jam from ports
===>>> No dependencies for devel/boost-jam
===>  Installing for boost-jam-1.48.0
===>   Generating temporary packing list
** Missing pkg-descr for boost-jam-1.48.0.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/boost-jam.

Any thoughts?

 

[freethread]

I updated boost last week on two systems, with no errors. In /usr/ports/devel/boost-jam that file is present, but it's only the port description. If it happens to me I'd go for a portsnap fetch update again, but probably this is not the right answer.

 

[DutchDaemon]

Try extracting the port separately first:

[cmd=]cd /usr/ports && portsnap extract devel/boost-jam[/cmd]

 

[fonz]

Try extracting the port separately first:

[cmd=]cd /usr/ports && portsnap extract devel/boost-jam[/cmd]

That fixed it, thanks a lot!

I still wonder how that file managed to disappear, though.

Fonz