Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 19:31:31 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster, pkg, virtualbox-ose Message-ID: <530CEF93.8000306@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1402251213160.11582@wonkity.com> References: <530CDDC9.7080509@onetel.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1402251213160.11582@wonkity.com>
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On 25/02/2014 19:18, Warren Block wrote: > 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. Thank you. Apologies for not reading the portmaster man page first, I used portmaster for the first time last night and have a hard deadline of tomorrow to finish the laptop so in a bit of a panic. I'll have a proper read asap. Chris
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