Makefile in ports tree has disappeared

[pieside]

I'm trying to update my ports tree with portmaster -a but the update stops early with this question: Is /usr/ports/x11/bigreqsproto/Makefile missing? When I do check this directory, it is completely empty. What's happening? I really did a lot of portsnap fetch update and nothing has changed.

 

[trh411]

Re: Makefile in ports tree have disappeared

I'm trying to update my ports tree with portmaster -a.

It's not empty in my ports tree. Suggest you do a portsnap fetch extract to pull down a whole new ports tree. Also, just a correction in terminology: portmaster -a checks all installed ports and updates those that have changed. It uses the ports tree to do this, but it does not update the ports tree itself.

 

[pieside]

Suggest you do a portsnap fetch extract to pull down a whole new ports tree.

I've done it but the result is still the same: no Makefile available. Maybe is there a clue here: a few days ago, I've switched to PKGNG and did the following : pkg2ng and wrote

WITH_PKGNG=yes

in /etc/make.conf. I'm still working with FreeBSD 9.2 and I think I will switch to FreeBSD 10.0. Problem will be solved but this is another story.

 

[SirDice]

I'm still working with FreeBSD 9.2 and I think I will switch to FreeBSD 10.0. Problem will be solved but this is another story.

All versions of FreeBSD use the exact same ports tree. You will not solve this problem by upgrading to 10.0.

 

[trh411]

Maybe is there a clue here: a few days ago, I've switched to PKGNG and did the following : pkg2ng and wrote

WITH_PKGNG=yes

in /etc/make.conf.

No, that's no clue. PKGNG has to do with package management and nothing to do with the contents of the ports tree. I don't know what to suggest here. I can pull down the ports tree using portsnap and/or svn|svnlite and I get the files you are missing.

Did you make any changes to the /etc/portsnap.conf file? If so, please post the contents here.

 

[pieside]

No, I haven't made any changes to /etc/portsnap.conf. I've completely reinstalled FreeBSD and now it's ok. I know this is a very hard solution but it was necessary since I've installed a lot of useless things on my computer. Thanks for your answers.

 

[EmeraldBot]

Well, I know it's been quite a while, and I hate to bump an old thread. I apologize in advance for this, but I recently had this problem, and figured out the solution. I was playing around with jails earlier, so I had DESTDIR set to /usr/jail/test. If you log out and then back in, it'll work normally, and will upgrade without any complaints.