Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:18:07 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmaster deletes failed ports Message-ID: <200609042118.09134.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <44FC4303.4050600@gmail.com> References: <44FC4303.4050600@gmail.com>
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On Monday 04 September 2006 16:15, Rene Ladan wrote: > Hi, > > I ran my approx. daily portmaster -a -d run this morning. It started > upgrading sysutils/bsdstats, but failed because pkg-install was not > present. When that file got committed later this morning, portmaster > didn't upgrade the port because ... (huh ?) ... bsdstats was not > installed anymore. The old version of a package must be deleted before a new one can be installed. Build tools like port[upgrade|manager|master] create a backup package file from the existing installed files, which is supposed to be reinstalled, if the port install fails. You're seeing a bug rather than a missing feature. Possibly there was a problem with the previous version of bsdstats too.
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