Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:44:35 +0000 From: "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.f2s.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: portmaster: upgrade failed for security/sudo Message-ID: <20080129184435.GA21466@oberon.njm.f2s.com> In-Reply-To: <479F6CCF.1000203@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080129061621.GA40834@oberon.njm.f2s.com> <479F6CCF.1000203@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <479F6CCF.1000203@FreeBSD.org>,
Doug Barton (dougb@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> N.J. Mann wrote:
[...]
> > All went well until the install phase,
> > when portmaster could no longer find sudo. It looks like portmaster got
> > into a chicken and egg situation: it needed to uninstall sudo in order
> > to complete the upgrade, but it needed to run sudo to perform the actual
> > install. Oh, dear.
>
> I thought it went without saying that this couldn't possibly work, but
> I'll update the man page in this regard.
I didn't really think about at the time, it was a bit early :-) But,
once it failed it did make me think about what I had done. I am happy
if it is documented as a caveat. The main reason I posted to the list
was so that others who had had the same failure would know that it was
possible to recover from it easily.
I still think portmaster is a great tool!
Thanks Doug.
Cheers,
Nick.
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