ports/114205: [ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel] portinstall sometimes tries to install a port as a dependency even if it is already installed

[Jonathan Liu]

>Number:         114205
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [ports-mgmt/portupgrade-devel] portinstall sometimes tries to install a port as a dependency even if it is already installed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 02 03:30:04 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jonathan Liu
>Release:        6.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD freebsd 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:55:55 UTC 2007     root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
>Description:
When installing a large metaport such as gnome2, portinstall may try to install a port that is already installed (or was previously installed as a dependency a related port). This can cause the port to be marked as failed and may cause other related ports that depend on it to be skipped.
>How-To-Repeat:
portinstall gnome2
>Fix:
A workaround for the moment is to repeat the portinstall until it installs successfully.

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