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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:12:28 -0800
From:      bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dependencies satisfied, build stops anyway.
Message-ID:  <20171123051228.GA64807@www.zefox.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tzsHYwwwHEw4-gO55ygsWjU5ExexBr9VuWjBKFPUfsWg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 08:32:53PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> Stale ports SHOULD not be an issue. Normally old ports are updated
> automatically. It is important that your ports tree is consistent and,
> usually that it is current. Assuming yours is, the only issue is the
> oddball case like this one. You won't hit them often. Usually it is when a
> file that is tested for is missing. Usually a library. pkgdb says that the
> port is installed, but the make looks for the actual library and triggers
> an install, as opposed to a reinstall, when it is not found. Unled this
> systm has been massively mangled, it is a very unusual development, at
> least in my experience.
> --

Aye, there's the rub 8-)

Some time ago I accidentally destroyed most of /usr and ended up
reconstructing it from a recent snapshot. Since buildworld and
buildkernel seemed to work in /usr/src, I thought /usr/ports would
be likewise recovered after a fresh checkout.

For now I've set
FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes 
in /etc/src.conf and that seems to allow make to proceed without
interruptions for dns/bind910, but I gather that's not a long-term
fix.

Thanks very much!

bob prohaska
 



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