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Date:      Mon, 6 Oct 2014 11:34:33 +0200
From:      Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
To:        Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg/ports system terribly messed up?
Message-ID:  <54326229.2080204@gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <3029778.sRTk01SrzP@blackbeast>
References:  <20140930081301.55bc5629.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4180223.sAzr7DGzUz@blackbeast> <542B9598.5030302@gwdg.de> <3029778.sRTk01SrzP@blackbeast>

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Am 02.10.2014 um 04:40 schrieb Chuck Burns:
> On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 7:48:08 AM Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> Am 01.10.2014 um 05:44 schrieb Chuck Burns:
>>> On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 8:13:01 AM O. Hartmann wrote:
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> I just made the last update of the ports yesterday (I use 
> portmaster -da
>>>> performing this task) and obviously or superficially everything 
> went all
>>>> right.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> It's portmaster actually.  While it -usually- works great, I've noticed
>>> that occassionally it loops like that.
>>>
>>> kill the script, upgrade the port that is looping.
>>
>> Because it seems that I have the same problem as Oliver: What script 
> you
>> are talking about?
>>
>>> That usually fixes it.
> 
> portmaster is just a (not-so-)simple shell script.  Kill portmaster (CTRL-C 
> a few times) then build the offending port with "make && make 
> deinstall reinstall clean"
> 
Thanks for your answer. I tried it, but unfortunately, this does not
change my problems with using portmaster for updating ports.




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