ports and NO_STAGE: portmaster leaves port-system in corrupt state

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 3 12:39:03 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 02:17:34PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> When NO_STAGE=yes is missing in the port's Makefile, as it is for a
> couple of ports like  lang/perl5.16, then portmaster compiles, installs
> and - corrupt the port-system, because it tries to "lstat" files it can
> not find and ends up at the end of an unfinished installation. This
> leaves the entry in the installed-port database corrupted. The port got
> installed, but the database hasn't an entry anymore.

NO_STAGE is not missing, and the system is not corrupted. Try to make sure you
have the latest ports-mgmt/pkg installed (1.1.4_6)

regards,
Bapt
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