Problem solved! In case anyone is interested, or has encountered a similar problem, I believe that my problem was that somehow my /var/db/pkg directory had a whole pile of near-duplicate entries 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. I assume that I acquired all of these out-of-date pkg entries through a backup restore mishap: I've been having gmirror issues lately (not gmirror's fault, I think -- just a series of dodgy hard drives.)
All is good again. No duplicate db/pkg entries at last, and portmaster runs to completion as intended. Cheers, -- Andrew On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 08:24:03AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > I've spent the weekend doing a ports catch-up: there seems to > have been a lot of activity recently! It's taking a long time > at least partly because portmaster doesn't seem to be "doing the > right thing" all of a sudden: it will happily trace the > dependencies and build the first superceded port, but fails to > re-install it. On every occsaion this weekend, it gets to > ===> Installing for foo-0.123_2 > ===> Generating temporary packing list > ===> Checking if graphics/foo already installed > ===> foo-0.123_2 is already installed > You may wish to "make deinstall" and blah, blah, blah... > > Of course it's installed, that's why I'm running portmaster! > > So I go into the directory, run make deinstall reinstall clean, > and that goes without a hitch. Restart portmaster -uBd -a and > half an hour later it will fail in the same way, and I'll have > to do the same dance. > > It's most likely something dumb that I've got misconfigured: can > anyone suggest to me where I should look? _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
