From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 29 18:44:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCEC16A418; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:44:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from njm@njm.f2s.com) Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4086C13C478; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:44:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from njm@njm.f2s.com) X-Trace: 29322209/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/195.137.21.170 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 195.137.21.170 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: njm@njm.f2s.com X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAEMDn0fDiRWq/2dsb2JhbACBWK4K X-IP-Direction: IN Received: from i-195-137-21-170.freedom2surf.net (HELO oberon.njm.f2s.com) ([195.137.21.170]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 29 Jan 2008 18:44:35 +0000 Received: from oberon.njm.f2s.com (localhost.njm.f2s.com [127.0.0.1]) by oberon.njm.f2s.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0TIiZUv024759; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:44:35 GMT (envelope-from njm@oberon.njm.f2s.com) Received: (from njm@localhost) by oberon.njm.f2s.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m0TIiZ1Q024758; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:44:35 GMT (envelope-from njm) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:44:35 +0000 From: "N.J. Mann" To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20080129184435.GA21466@oberon.njm.f2s.com> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Barton , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20080129061621.GA40834@oberon.njm.f2s.com> <479F6CCF.1000203@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <479F6CCF.1000203@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: portmaster: upgrade failed for security/sudo X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:44:37 -0000 In message <479F6CCF.1000203@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton (dougb@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > N.J. Mann wrote: [...] > > All went well until the install phase, > > when portmaster could no longer find sudo. It looks like portmaster got > > into a chicken and egg situation: it needed to uninstall sudo in order > > to complete the upgrade, but it needed to run sudo to perform the actual > > install. Oh, dear. > > I thought it went without saying that this couldn't possibly work, but > I'll update the man page in this regard. I didn't really think about at the time, it was a bit early :-) But, once it failed it did make me think about what I had done. I am happy if it is documented as a caveat. The main reason I posted to the list was so that others who had had the same failure would know that it was possible to recover from it easily. I still think portmaster is a great tool! Thanks Doug. Cheers, Nick. --