From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 28 17:31:16 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 A720F106566B for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:31:16 +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 3547E8FC18 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:31:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 22574 invoked by uid 399); 28 Jul 2009 17:31:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 28 Jul 2009 17:31:11 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:31:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Andrew Reilly In-Reply-To: <20090728094809.GB3717@duncan.reilly.home> Message-ID: References: <20090726222403.GA19875@duncan.reilly.home> <20090728001238.GA97218@duncan.reilly.home> <20090728094809.GB3717@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 17:31:16 -0000 On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:13:07PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Andrew Reilly wrote: >>> 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." > > Hmm. Well, *something* was whinging about the MD5 hashes not > matching (and indeed they weren't), just before the install > failed. Could it have been the process that builds a backup > package from the installed files? Yes. It could also be the 'pkg_delete -f' that portmaster runs to deinstall the port. > Thanks for making portmaster, btw. It's a great tool, and I > find that I prefer it to portupgrade, although I can't say that > I can put my finger on why, exactly... Thank you for the kind words, they are appreciated. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection