Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:18:40 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: portmaster, pkg, virtualbox-ose Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1402251213160.11582@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <530CDDC9.7080509@onetel.com> References: <530CDDC9.7080509@onetel.com>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command line: > portmaster <flags> emulators/virtualbox-ose > > ===>>> Exiting > > But restarting with > # portmaster emulators/virtualbox-ose > starts by cleaning for virtualbox then starts again. Have I misunderstood > something? I checked the work directory before and after the cleaning step > and nearly everything was deleted. > > It's building now and I think it has time to finish so there isn't an > immediate problem but I would like to find answers to the above. Portmaster cleans a port before starting to build. That's the safe thing to do, there is no good way to know why a work directory is still there, and options may have changed. -C can be used to prevent portmaster from cleaning first.
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