From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 9 17:18:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2931F16A4CE for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 17:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.server.rpi.edu (smtp0.server.rpi.edu [128.113.53.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D5C43D1D for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 17:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp0.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4A0I1Ed011365; Sun, 9 May 2004 20:18:01 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20040508134709.GA35555@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040509024226.GA79746@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040509231911.GA54086@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 20:18:00 -0400 To: Kris Kennaway From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make index || portsdb -uU fails after cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 00:18:03 -0000 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