Make index || portsdb -uU fails after cvsup

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 7:50 PM -0400 5/9/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 4:19 PM -0700 5/9/04, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>On Sun, May 09, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>>  OLDPWD=/usr/obj/usr/ports
>>
>>The existence of /usr/obj/usr/ports seems to confuse ports.
>
>Ugh.  YES, that seems to be the culprit.  I thought I had gotten
>recently gotten rid of /usr/obj/usr/ports on all my systems, but
>I must have done something to bring them back.  I should have
>noticed that with the last DEBUG statement I had added.

Okay.  I now realize what happened.  I recently had one freebsd
machine fail with a disk problem, and had to shuffled around
machines and directories.  In doing that I managed to recreate
a /usr/obj/usr/ports on three of the machines (created Apr 28th,
the day that disk died...).

So on the one hand I'm sorry for all the fuss, but on the other
hand I really hate it that the ports collection is so fragile
that various things go haywire when that one directory exists.
It's not like I ever remember to look for that (and this is like
the third or fourth time that I have run into something like this).

I've just gone around to all my freebsd machines and removed
that directory, and rearranged a few things so I'll be much
less likely to recreate it in the future.  Hopefully that will
save me (and everyone else) from this grief in the future.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu