2.8 Ports Woes

[Jack Woehr <jax_(_at_)_purematrix_(_dot_)_com>]

Excuse me if this is a repeat. I'm just straightening out my new
OpenBSD 2.8 box and not sure any mail got through.

Every port in /usr/ports bombs on every simple command.
Any 'mv' or 'chmod' or 'mkdir; and it stops, sometimes with
an error msg from excvp(), e.g.,

>> Checksum OK for unzip541.tar.gz. (sha1)
===>  Extracting for unzip-5.41
mkdir: Is a directory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/unzip (line 1151 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/zip (line 1862 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1

I have:

   * applied patches
   * rebuilt the kernel
   * rebuilt of /usr/src
   * updated the ports tree

What have I forgotten here, please? Why can't I build any ports
without hand work?

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Jack J. Woehr
Senior Consultant, PureMatrix, Inc.
http://www.purematrix.com
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