Has portmaster gone insane?

[Doug Barton]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Lars Stokholm wrote:

> On 10/7/07, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I'm sincerely sorry that you've had this problem. I think Scot is right in
>> that the code for --clean-distfiles* is pretty simple, and relies totally
>> on a proper definition of DISTDIR.
>
> Perhaps at the time it was empty, but it isn't now. I tried what Scot
> said and it gave me "/usr/ports/distfiles". I also ran "portmaster
> --clean-distfiles-all" again and it completed as expected, deleting a
> few disftiles, but nothing else.

Hrrrm, that's very odd.

> Also, I'm not completely sure, but it seems like it has only deleted
> stuff in my ~, that is nothing outside of ~lars. It has probably got
> something to do with the fact that I su'd from lars to root, likely
> without cd'ing to somewhere else, when I ran clean-distfiles-all the
> other day.

It shouldn't, that's one of the reasons that it derives the value of 
DISTDIR the way it does.

> By the way, I had backup of everything, so nothing is lost. :)

Well THAT is good news. :) Thanks for the details on the other stuff. I'm 
almost done regression testing the new patch with safety belts for this 
issue, it should be out soon.

Doug

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