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Subject: Re: What gives?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:05:56 -0500
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The most common thing I find is leftovers, like a Makefile.inc or a work
directory, do a make clean on them, I periodically do a make clean in
/usr/ports.  I know there is probably a more efficient way to do it, but I
just let it go for a while.  You could also do it before you install
somethings, just do a make clean install, because it also cleans the
dependencies.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roelof Osinga" <roelof@eboa.com>
To: "Rasputin" <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>
Cc: <stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: What gives?


> Rasputin wrote:
> >
> > >...
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1955761 May 10 00:30 gnome
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   636835 May 10 02:46 kde2
> >
> > Freaky - those two both work for me.
>
> >
> > Sounds like your ports tree is shafted, because the ports work for
others.
>
> Interesting suggestion. Never mind the obvious 'how could it have
> been shafted?', but rather point out how one can verify the state
> of ones port collection. Please :).
>
> Each tarball has an unique MD5 hash. Each port release has the distinfo
> file with the MD5's it has been based upon. Hence each port can verify
> if the tarball fetched is the right one. Alternatively it can check
> if needed needed stuff like libs or execs are present.
>
> Yet how can a sysop check the correctness of the collection itself?
> As well as supporting utilities, of course. Just wipe /usr/ports and
> refetch the whole shebang? Coupled with a CVSup of the source, is it
> advisable to also wipe the /usr/src tree? Or are there diagnostic tools?
>
> Would be nice since that would be a nice first step in the diagnostic
> process.
>
> Roelof
>
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