Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:44:57 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: d@delphij.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Massive ports update? Message-ID: <52F0A889.7090803@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <52F08713.3080206@delphij.net> References: <52F081AF.8030402@riseup.net> <52F08713.3080206@delphij.net>
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On 02/03/14 22:22, Xin Li wrote:=0D > On 2/3/14, 9:59 PM, Nikola Pavlovi=C4=87 wrote:=0D >> Was there a *huge* update to ports tree tonight between around 00:20 and= =0D >> 06:30 CET? Portsnap just fetched 24720 patches (this is more or less=0D >> every port I guess), but I can't find anything in =0D >> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/ that would correspond to this. I'm= =0D >> a bit worried. :)=0D > =0D > This may be related to my upgrade operation on the portsnap builder, whic= h=0D > happened around UTC midnight, right after a new "snap" snapshot is taken.= =0D =0D I'm pretty sure this resulted from changes to libarchive / bsdtar. With=0D them generating different tarballs for the same input, the portsnap build= =0D thinks that everything has changed.=0D =0D ... there's actually code on the portsnap builder to revert such changes,= =0D but I don't think delphij knew about it and I didn't realize he was=0D upgrading the portsnap builder until too late.=0D =0D -- =0D Colin Percival=0D Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve=0D Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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