ports/131439: inconsistencies on PACKAGESITEs

[Hannes Hauswedell]

>Number:         131439
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       inconsistencies on PACKAGESITEs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 06 00:20:03 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Hannes Hauswedell
>Release:        irrelevant
>Organization:
>Environment:
irrelevant
>Description:
The Packagesites contain an inconsistant set of packages, or more precise: All/ and Latest/ get updated faster than the "real" categories and the INDEX-file.

This in itself wouldnt be a problem, but the files referred to in INDEX and by symlinks from other categories are removed from All/.

Software using the INDEX like KPorts, a work-in-progress pkg_upgrade-script for binary-only upgrades, possibly other software, as well as users looking in the categories get unresolvable Packages and dependencies...

Thanks for your help!
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Either:

-update symlinks in the categories and the INDEX-file with every update to All/

or:

- at least keep all files while they are referred to by symlinks or INDEX.

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