Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 12:17:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Lars Stokholm <lars.stokholm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has portmaster gone insane? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710071215030.71796@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <a5eea06e0710070458t2a61764cu12a375a66a6c9815@mail.gmail.com> References: <a5eea06e0710051322i7855a932xa8ca6d897e3b88e5@mail.gmail.com> <790a9fff0710051337j710e5f97w809ce08998884648@mail.gmail.com> <a5eea06e0710051441x2e2cf65ar4edd6ff071447aac@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710062145080.62920@qbhto.arg> <a5eea06e0710070458t2a61764cu12a375a66a6c9815@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Lars Stokholm wrote:
> On 10/7/07, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I'm sincerely sorry that you've had this problem. I think Scot is right in
>> that the code for --clean-distfiles* is pretty simple, and relies totally
>> on a proper definition of DISTDIR.
>
> Perhaps at the time it was empty, but it isn't now. I tried what Scot
> said and it gave me "/usr/ports/distfiles". I also ran "portmaster
> --clean-distfiles-all" again and it completed as expected, deleting a
> few disftiles, but nothing else.
Hrrrm, that's very odd.
> Also, I'm not completely sure, but it seems like it has only deleted
> stuff in my ~, that is nothing outside of ~lars. It has probably got
> something to do with the fact that I su'd from lars to root, likely
> without cd'ing to somewhere else, when I ran clean-distfiles-all the
> other day.
It shouldn't, that's one of the reasons that it derives the value of
DISTDIR the way it does.
> By the way, I had backup of everything, so nothing is lost. :)
Well THAT is good news. :) Thanks for the details on the other stuff. I'm
almost done regression testing the new patch with safety belts for this
issue, it should be out soon.
Doug
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