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Subject: Re: Weird portmaster behaviour -- everything fails to install
From: Doug Barton <dougb () freebsd ! org>
Date: 2009-07-28 17:31:09
Message-ID: alpine.BSF.2.00.0907281030180.94256 () qbhto ! arg
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:13:07PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>>> corresponding to port revisions. Portmaster was checking the
>>> installed version against the MD5 hashes in the "old" version
>>> +CONTENTS file, and they weren't matching.
>>
>> FYI, portmaster doesn't do anything with the md5 hashes in +CONTENTS, but
>> duplicate entries will definitely cause "issues."
>
> Hmm. Well, *something* was whinging about the MD5 hashes not
> matching (and indeed they weren't), just before the install
> failed. Could it have been the process that builds a backup
> package from the installed files?
Yes. It could also be the 'pkg_delete -f' that portmaster runs to
deinstall the port.
> Thanks for making portmaster, btw. It's a great tool, and I
> find that I prefer it to portupgrade, although I can't say that
> I can put my finger on why, exactly...
Thank you for the kind words, they are appreciated.
Doug
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