Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:13:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird portmaster behaviour -- everything fails to install Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907271812020.43191@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <20090728001238.GA97218@duncan.reilly.home> References: <20090726222403.GA19875@duncan.reilly.home> <20090728001238.GA97218@duncan.reilly.home>
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> Problem solved!
Well I'm glad to hear that in any case. :)
> In case anyone is interested, or has encountered a similar
> problem, I believe that my problem was that somehow my
> /var/db/pkg directory had a whole pile of near-duplicate entries
> corresponding to port revisions. Portmaster was checking the
> installed version against the MD5 hashes in the "old" version
> +CONTENTS file, and they weren't matching.
FYI, portmaster doesn't do anything with the md5 hashes in +CONTENTS, but
duplicate entries will definitely cause "issues."
Doug
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