Re: First time porter seeks guidance on 'make package' (as user)

2018-01-13 Thread Yuri
On 01/09/18 00:26, Mathieu Arnold wrote: What an insanely long and complicated method. As your own user: And, of course, the method is "insanely long and complicated" only because it actually explains how to set up "sudo" with ports such that there is no need to type password all the time.

Re: First time porter seeks guidance on 'make package' (as user)

2018-01-09 Thread Mathieu Arnold
Le 09/01/2018 à 15:36, James E Keenan a écrit : > # > $ make stage > ===>  p5-Devel-Platform-Info-0.16 Invalid perl5 version 5.20. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > make: stopped in /usr/home/jkeenan/ports/devel/p5-Devel-Platform-Info > # > > I got the same error message when I called 'make fe

Re: First time porter seeks guidance on 'make package' (as user)

2018-01-09 Thread James E Keenan
On 01/09/2018 09:36 AM, James E Keenan wrote: On 01/09/2018 03:26 AM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: [snip] I elected to follow this approach. 1. checkout the ports tree in your home: svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head $HOME/ports (or where-ever you want it) Done. 2. Then, either add

Re: First time porter seeks guidance on 'make package' (as user)

2018-01-09 Thread James E Keenan
On 01/09/2018 03:26 AM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: [snip] I elected to follow this approach. 1. checkout the ports tree in your home: svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head $HOME/ports (or where-ever you want it) Done. 2. Then, either add PORTSDIR=$HOME/ports to your environment, or a

Re: First time porter seeks guidance on 'make package' (as user)

2018-01-09 Thread Mathieu Arnold
Le 09/01/2018 à 04:22, Yuri a écrit : > On 01/08/18 12:46, James E Keenan wrote: >> Can someone offer guidance as to how to proceed? > > > As a root: > > 1. Check out the ports tree: svn checkout > https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports (if you don't have it > checked out yet) > > 2. Change

Re: First time porter seeks guidance on 'make package' (as user)

2018-01-08 Thread Yuri
On 01/08/18 12:46, James E Keenan wrote: Can someone offer guidance as to how to proceed? As a root: 1. Check out the ports tree: svn checkout https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports (if you don't have it checked out yet) 2. Change the ports tree to your user: chown -R {username}:us

Re: First time porter seeks guidance on 'make package' (as user)

2018-01-08 Thread matthew
On 08/01/2018 20:46, James E Keenan wrote: The one place where I have not gotten the desired results is found at "Procedure 3.1: Recommended Test Ordering" (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-testing.html).  Step 6 of that process is to invoke 'make pack

First time porter seeks guidance on 'make package' (as user)

2018-01-08 Thread James E Keenan
I am making my first attempt at constructing a FreeBSD port. The port in question is for Perl extension Devel-Platform_Info (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-Platform-Info/). Devel-Platform-Info, AFAICT, has not yet been ported and has no prerequisites outside the Perl 5 core distribution. H