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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2006 13:51:01 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        George Donnelly <george@highspeedrails.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: self-built packages don't always install all files
Message-ID:  <20061108185101.GA7926@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <eit6ge$f2m$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <eit6ge$f2m$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:12:23PM -0500, George Donnelly wrote:
> Hi
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> I maintain my own package repository, served over ftp and I am finding=20
> that often times a package will not fully get installed on a remote=20
> host.
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> For example, if i run pkg_add -r python24 and i know i have just built=20
> that port's package and it works, sometimes it will only install a few=20
> of the packages files.
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> # pkg_info -L python24-2.4.3_3
> Information for python24-2.4.3_3:
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> Files:
> /usr/local/man/man1/python.1.gz
> /usr/local/man/man1/python2.4.1.gz
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> python24 has hundreds of files it installs, but only these 2 really got=
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> installed.
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> this also happens with php5-session at times.
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> If i rebuild the package on the package repository host I can ensure=20
> 1-3 good remote installs but after that the problem crops up again.
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> This gets problematic when you're updating hundreds of hosts.
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> Has anyone else experienced this? Found what is causing the problem?

How are you building the packages?  Do the packages actually contain
more than those two files?

Kris

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