ports/175532: x11/xdm: /bin/cp -n /usr/local/share/examples/xdm/GiveConsole /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole *** [post-install] Error code 1
Niclas Zeising
zeising at freebsd.org
Sat Feb 2 12:30:01 UTC 2013
The following reply was made to PR ports/175532; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org>
To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/175532: x11/xdm: /bin/cp -n /usr/local/share/examples/xdm/GiveConsole
/usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole *** [post-install] Error code 1
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:16:17 +0100
On 02/02/13 13:04, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Am 02/02/13 11:21, schrieb Niclas Zeising:
>> On 02/02/13 11:15, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>> Am 02/02/13 10:34, schrieb Niclas Zeising:
>>>> Hi!
>>>> Apparently something in the base system has changed, which affects
>>>> rebuild of this port when it is already installed. Since this change to
>>>> the base system isn't very old, and most ports testing are done on clean
>>>> systems, using tinderbox or poudriere or similar software, this has gone
>>>> through the cracks. For now, I suggest you remove xdm before
>>>> reinstalling it, since all files should be removed in the
>>>> deinstallation. If xdm leaves files behind, then that is a separate
>>>> issue. however that would show up on a tinderbox run, and I can build
>>>> xdm fine in my tinderbox.
>>>> Regards!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Have you used NEW_XORG=YES in make.conf? I use those bits to build the
>>> most recent stuff and I realized this causes problems since several
>>> changes a couple of days ago.
>>>
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>
>> Yes. What other problems are you referring to? x11/xdm is the same
>> version regardless of WITH_NEW_XORG.
>> Regards!
>>
>
> Those problems are related to other ports, databases/akonadi or
> deskutils/kdepimlibs4 which refuse to compile not finding qmake (which
> is installed as qmake-qt4).
>
> From time to time I realized running CURRENT, it is wise to recompile
> ports. So I did with xorg and xdm since they had been compiled in the
> CLANG 3.1 era and now we are with CLANG 3.2 and with libc++.
>
> When I performed a "portmaster -w -r xorg xdm", I found myself lost with
> the reported error and with a deleted pkg database entry for xdm.
> x11/xdm wasn't even reported installed then - but the binaries of the
> new build were obviously there.
>
> It is not the first time that portmaster deletes a port and at the very
> end it fails and refuses updating the database, like it happened with
> x11/xdm.
Without knowing any details, that sounds partly like a problem with
portmaster... As I said, I can't reproduce the xdm issue locally,
although I do not use portmaster, and most of my builds are done with a
tinderbox of some sort.
Regards!
--
Niclas Zeising
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