From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 29 23:34:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 258B037B405 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:34:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 18301 invoked by uid 202); 30 Jun 2001 06:34:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 30 Jun 2001 06:34:31 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010630083531.02944a60@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 08:43:00 +0200 To: ports@freebsd.org From: Cynic Subject: a quirk in the ports framework Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi there, I'm new to FreeBSD, and generaly speaking, I really like it so far. However, a few minutes after a fresh install I found a quirk in the ports framework. Since it's so well visible I'm guessing it's by design, and would like to know what's behing that... Or maybe it's really a bug, dunno. The problem is simple: if an error occurrs during the install of a port, the files that have been istalled so far are nor deleted. And, because the install didn't finish, you can't # make deinstall either. This is not so bad with small pieces of software, but is a real PITA when you install something large. So my question is: is this on purpose, or is it a defficiency in the framework? If it's by design, what is the reason? TIA for any answers cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message