Screwed ports tree/package database on my server

[Sam Lawrance]

On 31/05/2006, at 9:56 PM, Matt Sealey wrote:

>
>> Do you have any thing set in /etc/make.conf?  Sometimes this
>> kind of problem can be caused by misusing some internal ports
>> variables.
>
>
> USE_APACHE=2.2
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This is probably where all your damage is coming from.  USE_APACHE is  
an internal variable, to be set by ports only.  By setting it in  
make.conf, every port you install gets a dependency on Apache 2.2.

Another side effect is that apache 2.2 then depends on itself (a  
circular dependency), which is why you end up with thousands of make  
processes .