On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 01:15:18AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am following
> http://www.openbsd.org/papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html
>
> in an attempt to create a very simple port (MenuMaker) I keep getting the
> following mistake when I try to make extract file
>
> make extract
> ===> Checking files for menumaker-0.99.7
> `/usr/ports/distfiles/menumaker-0.99.7.tar.gz' is up to date.
> >> (SHA256) menumaker-0.99.7.tar.gz: OK
> ===> Extracting for menumaker-0.99.7
> tar: Cannot identify format. Searching...
> tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
> tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/menumaker (line 1941 of
> /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/menumaker (line 1921 of
> /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
>
>
> What am I doing wrong? I am getting exactly the same mistake on Current and
> 4.3 Release.
Are you sure the tarball is not corrupt? try to extract it manually.
Have a look at EXTRACT_CASES in bsd.port.mk [(5)] to see what make
extract really does.
>
>
> Best,
> Predrag
>
> P.S. $ more mk.conf
> SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo
> PLIST_DB=${PORTSDIR}/plist
> WRKOBJDIR=/usr/obj/ports
> USE_SYSTRACE=Yes
>
>
