Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:07:30 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster always re-installs some ports Message-ID: <20100817030730.GB34339@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20100817024823.GA34339@comcast.net> References: <20100817024823.GA34339@comcast.net>
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On Mon 16 Aug 2010 at 19:48:23 PDT Charlie Kester wrote: >A while back I aborted a recursive update (bad idea, I know now) and >must have messed up something in whatever info portmaster uses to decide >whether to re-install a port. Now, whenever I use portmaster -a, it >re-installs py26-imaging, py26-reportlab and py26-xml. > >Every time. Correction: every time any other port is upgraded. If all ports are reported as up to date, the three python ports are not re-installed. But if any port is upgraded, the re-install occurs, even if the upgraded port has no dependency relationship with any of the three python ports. > >And it's a re-installation, not an upgrade. > >I've tried manually uninstalling and then reinstalling these ports, but >portmaster still thinks they always need to re-installed . So the >manual un-/re-install apparently doesn't fix whatever info it's looking >at. > >I checked the portmaster manpage, but didn't find anything that tells me >how to fix my problem. I also took a quick look at the portmaster >sourcecode but nothing jumped out at me. > >Any ideas? It's probably something obvious, but I'm missing it.
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