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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:42:26 -0400
From:      Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what's wrong with my ports???
Message-ID:  <411AE722.9070806@att.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040812.031523.38a94be73bf827c1.10.0.3.20@bugsgrief.net>
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horio shoichi wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:43:45 -0400
> Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> 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
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> 
> No sure if this is "the" problem, but missing "delete" may be keeping
> stale files sing aloud ?
> 
> If adding "delete" doesn't solve your problem, save the problem port(s)
> somewhere before zapping /usr/ports, and compare before and after.

Ugh. That's probably it. I have

*default delete use-rel-suffix compress

on all my other boxes that aren't having problems.

Thanks!

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> horio shoichi
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