Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 20:18:00 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make index || portsdb -uU fails after cvsup Message-ID: <p06020415bcc478f38d1e@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <p06020414bcc4733233ee@[128.113.24.47]> References: <BCC2AE80.128AC%tomonage2@gmx.de> <20040508134709.GA35555@xor.obsecurity.org> <p0602040fbcc33d188518@[128.113.24.47]> <20040509024226.GA79746@xor.obsecurity.org> <p06020411bcc4683ea298@[128.113.24.47]> <20040509231911.GA54086@xor.obsecurity.org> <p06020414bcc4733233ee@[128.113.24.47]>
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At 7:50 PM -0400 5/9/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >At 4:19 PM -0700 5/9/04, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>On Sun, May 09, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >>> OLDPWD=/usr/obj/usr/ports >> >>The existence of /usr/obj/usr/ports seems to confuse ports. > >Ugh. YES, that seems to be the culprit. I thought I had gotten >recently gotten rid of /usr/obj/usr/ports on all my systems, but >I must have done something to bring them back. I should have >noticed that with the last DEBUG statement I had added. Okay. I now realize what happened. I recently had one freebsd machine fail with a disk problem, and had to shuffled around machines and directories. In doing that I managed to recreate a /usr/obj/usr/ports on three of the machines (created Apr 28th, the day that disk died...). So on the one hand I'm sorry for all the fuss, but on the other hand I really hate it that the ports collection is so fragile that various things go haywire when that one directory exists. It's not like I ever remember to look for that (and this is like the third or fourth time that I have run into something like this). I've just gone around to all my freebsd machines and removed that directory, and rearranged a few things so I'll be much less likely to recreate it in the future. Hopefully that will save me (and everyone else) from this grief in the future. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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