Slight problem with make actual-package-depends with ports

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Wed Jul 18 05:03:00 UTC 2007


Doug Barton wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>   
>> I appreciate that most people won't have this problem, but it has bitten
>> me.
>>
>> After you have made and installed a port, but don't clean it, and then
>> made a bunch of other ports, if you go back to the original port and
>> then do "make package", then +CONTENTS can be a bit messed up for the
>> package.  This is because the creation of other ports might disturb
>> _LIB_RUN_DEPENDS and might put in some extra entries in +CONTENTS.
>>     
>
> 	"Doctor, it hurts when I do THIS."
> 	"Well, don't do that." :)
>
> Doug
    Heh. That can't be as bad as when I was fubar'ing pkg_install last 
week after creating accidental segfault conditions. Not being able to 
install ports for 1-2 days sucked :P.
-Garrett


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