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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:37:43 -0500
From:      "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        "Lars Stokholm" <lars.stokholm@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Has portmaster gone insane?
Message-ID:  <790a9fff0710051337j710e5f97w809ce08998884648@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a5eea06e0710051322i7855a932xa8ca6d897e3b88e5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a5eea06e0710051322i7855a932xa8ca6d897e3b88e5@mail.gmail.com>

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On 10/5/07, Lars Stokholm <lars.stokholm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Running 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' it began to delete *a lot*
> of files it shouldn't. I haven't had time to see how much is missing,
> but I guess is so much, that the entire installation is screwed. It
> choked on a filename of a weird charset, so it didn't get a chance to
> delete everything.
>
> Here's a little sample of what it was doing:
> ===>>> Deleting usr/home/lars/documents/blaagaard/2/nt/alkohol.doc
>
> I had accepted if, if it had just been messing around with /usr/ports
> - but /usr/home...? What the hell was it doing there?

Do you have DISTDIR set in /etc/make.conf?

Portmaster uses the following to determine the value of DISTDIR.  What
does this show that DISTDIR is set to?

make BEFOREPORTMK=yes -f/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk -V DISTDIR

Scot



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