From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 28 01:13:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8358E106566C for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:13:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1330F8FC0C for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:13:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 3156 invoked by uid 399); 28 Jul 2009 01:13:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 28 Jul 2009 01:13:09 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:13:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Andrew Reilly In-Reply-To: <20090728001238.GA97218@duncan.reilly.home> Message-ID: References: <20090726222403.GA19875@duncan.reilly.home> <20090728001238.GA97218@duncan.reilly.home> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0xD5B2F0FB Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird portmaster behaviour -- everything fails to install X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:13:16 -0000 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 -- This .signature sanitized for your protection