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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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