Staging error in devel/gobject-introspection, apparent missing file

[Michelle Sullivan]

Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
>   
>>>>> mtree: /usr/local/etc/mtree/BSD.gnome.dist: No such file or directory
>>>>>           
>>>> Why is it missing ?
>>>>         
>>>> /usr/local/etc/mtree/BSD.gnome.dist was installed by package gnomehier-3.0
>>>>         
>>>> So, have you tried to reinstall gnomehier ?
>>>>         
>>> So I installed gnomehier, then devel/gobject-introspection, then
>>> x11-wm/icewm and remaining dependencies, successfully.
>>>       
>> Then some build-depend is missing. Hmm.
>>     
>
> I tested it using poudriere:
>
> [...]
> ===>   gobject-introspection-1.36.0_2 depends on file: /usr/local/etc/mtree/BSD.gnome.dist - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/etc/mtree/BSD.gnome.dist in /usr/ports/misc/gnomehier
> ===>   Installing existing package /packages/All/gnomehier-3.0.txz
> Installing gnomehier-3.0... done
> ===>   Returning to build of gobject-introspection-1.36.0_2
>
> So if you use a current ports tree, the dependency is defined.
>
> What version of /usr/ports do you use ?
>
>   
I had a load of problems with the same dependency... for me the solution
was to run poudriere with -c on all packages (it wasn't getting rebuild)
... then eventually I worked out what depended on it and disabled the
option that was including it because it was continually causing problems.

    Michelle


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