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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:04:21 -0700
From:      "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm@inbox.lv>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what's wrong with my ports???
Message-ID:  <200408111804.29125.ringworm@inbox.lv>
In-Reply-To: <411ABD41.6050705@att.net>
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On Wednesday 11 August 2004 05:43 pm, Duane Winner wrote:
> Will wrote:
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> > Duane Winner wrote:
> > | Hello all,
> > |
> > | This problem has been recurring on my laptop (5.2.1-RELEASE-p9) for the
> > | past few weeks and I'm scratching my head.
> > |
> > | Very frequently, I'll go to portinstall something, and I'll get several
> > | stop errors, and the build will fail.
> > |
> > | But if I do a "rm -rf /usr/ports", then re-cvsup my ports collection, I
> > | can successfully build whatever port I was trying at the time. However,
> > | a few days later (or whatever), I'll try to build another port, and it
> > | will start all over. I delete /usr/ports, cvsup again, then I'm fine.
> > | This has happened several times over the past few weeks and the whole
> > | manual cvsup'ing to refresh my entire /usr/ports every time is getting
> > | old. (Although I've noticed I can sometimes get away with just deleting
> > | the /usr/ports/... directory of the port I'm trying to build and
> > | cvsup'ing again.)
> > |
> > | I'm keeping my ports current the same way on a workstation in at work,
> > | and I've had no problems there, so I know it has to be something that's
> > | wrong on my laptop.
> > |
> > | Here is the output of the latest port failure (fwbuilder):
> > |
> > | ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for net-snmp-5.1.2
> > | 2 out of 4 hunks failed--saving rejects to
> > | agent/mibgroup/ucd-snmp/diskio.c.rej
> > |
> > |  >> Patch patch-diskio.c failed to apply cleanly.
> > |  >> Patch(es) patch-Makefile.in patch-aa patch-auto_nlist.c
> > |
> > | patch-configure.in applied cleanly.
> > | *** Error code 1
> > |
> > | Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp.
> > | *** Error code 1
> > |
> > | Stop in /usr/ports/security/libfwbuilder.
> > | *** Error code 1
> > |
> > | Stop in /usr/ports/security/fwbuilder.
> > | ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
> > | /tmp/portinstall79078.0 make
> > | ** Fix the problem and try again.
> > | ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
> > |         ! security/fwbuilder    (patch error)
> > | --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
> > |
> > |
> > | Thank for any feedback!
> > |
> > | -Duane
> > |
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> > I'm abit confused, just syncing your port tree via cvsup does'nt work?
> > ie. things wont build after that, but after removing your entire ports
> > tree they will? Are you sure it couldn'nt be a disc problem with the
> > ports files being corrupted?
>
> Yeah, I'm confused too :), but that's what's going on. I have a cronjob
> that syncs my ports tree every day at noon. It does:
>
> /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 2 /usr/sup/supfile
> /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
> /usr/sbin/pkg_version -v | grep "needs"
>
> My supfile is:
>
> *default host=cvsup11.us.freebsd.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2
> *default use-rel-suffix compress
>
> src-all
> ports-all tag=.
> doc-all tag=.
>
> Additionally, I should mention that the problem isn't consistent.
>
> For instance, yesterday, the cronjob ran and I was notified (pkg_version
> -v) that there were updates to XFree86 et.al.
>
> I got home last night, and did a portupgrade -a. No problem.
>
> Today at noon, cvsup (via cronjob) ran again.
>
> I got home tonight and finally decided to install xmms. So I did a
> "portinstall xmms" and it installed fine.
>
> Later on, I decided I wanted to install fwbuilder. "portinstall
> fwbuilder" started, then eventually bombed with the patch errors.
>
> So I "rm -rf /usr/ports", did cvsup again which sucked in a virgin ports
> tree again, then tried "portinstall fwbuilder" again. I'ts humming along
> nicely now.
>
> I'll entertain the possiblity of disk errors, but I am not having any
> other noticeable issues, and I have just one big filesystem (/).
>
> Is it possible portsdb -Uu is hosing things?
>
> -Duane
>

Duane, I wrote sysutils/portmanager because portupgrade doesn't always
do a good job at updateting ports, try it if you like it may just solve your 
problem....

-Mike



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