textproc/libxml2 and failed patching after using portsnap...

[Colin Percival]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>    This is just a notice that a patch is no longer needed with
>>> textproc/libxml2 -- it appears to have been checked in upstream:
>>>
>>>    This isn't noted in the CVSweb interface, so I assume the file is
>>> stale. However, it was recently synced (today at ~noon) with portsnap.
>> Does running 'portsnap extract textproc/libxml2' make the problem
>> patch go away?
> 
>     Yes. Is this an issue with the `update' logic?

I suppose that it's possible that there's a bug in the 'portsnap update' logic,
but usually problems like this occur as a result of someone trying to use both
portsnap and cvsup/csup.

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