getting bogged down by malfunctioning ports subsystem

[Doug Barton]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 06.08.2009, 05:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>:
> 
> 
>> I have considered changing the order of how portmaster does things from:
>>
>> build
>> backup package (unless -B)
>> deinstall
>> install
>>
>> to:
>> backup package
>> deinstall
>> build
>> install
>>
>> That is undoubtedly more dangerous, and would require the "automated
>> backout" feature that I have yet to write, but it would solve a lot of
>> these problems.
> 
> I recall very few cases where this change would have helped me; one was
> the recent GD2 update (arguably that would be a bug of the individual
> port - often an upstream bug - that picked up an old /usr/local library
> version during the build), and a minor one was an earlier
> e2fsprogs-libuuid issue (which was in fact just exposing genuine
> upstream bugs that impaired portability); it also impairs system
> functionality during the whole build phase.

I agree on both points, which is why I said I've considered it, not
done it yet. :)


Doug

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