Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:32:57 +0200 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inconsistency in portmaster's stale distfile handling Message-ID: <44EE2919.8060004@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44EE12A0.9060008@FreeBSD.org> References: <44ED90D6.5080303@gmail.com> <44EE12A0.9060008@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton schreef:
> Rene Ladan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I decided to give portmaster a try to get rid of ${PORTSDIR}/INDEX*db
>> and /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db. It works quite nice, but IMO there is a
>> inconsistency in the -d option:
>>
>> after vim got updated from 7.0.x to 7.0.66, portmaster -a -d deleted
>> vim/vim-6.4.tar.bz2 (which is still an up-to-date distfile for vim6, but
>> older than vim/vim-7.0.tar.bz2), but not vim/6.4.*
>>
>> I don't have vim6 installed, so the -d option should either not delete
>> vim-6.4.tar.bz2 or remove all of vim6's distfiles, including vim/6.4.*
>> If someone has both vim6 and vim7 installed, would portmaster -d also
>> delete vim-6.4.tar.bz2 ?
>
> Yes. The stale file algorithm is very aggressive, and tries to find as many
> matches as possible that could reasonably be a distfile for that package. If
> you regularly run into situations where -d deletes too many files, you can
> run portmaster without it and it will prompt you for whether to delete the
> files or not.
>
The nice thing about the -d option is that I don't have to type 'y' each
time :) Just mentioning this case...
> hth,
>
> Doug
>
Regards,
Rene
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