portsclean -CDD oddness

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 4 11:47:48 UTC 2010


On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:46:57 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 11/3/2010 9:59 PM, Jimmie James wrote:
> > After doing a portupgrade, I've always run portsclean -CDD
> > [for reference]
> > -C Clean out all the working directories of the ports tree. (cf.
> > WRKDIRPREFIX)
> > -D Clean out all the distfiles that are not referenced by any port
> > in the ports tree.  Specified twice (i.e.  -DD), clean out all the
> > distfiles that are not referenced by any port that is currently
> > installed. (cf.  DISTDIR)
> >
> > This time, fresh csup and a few ports updated, it wiped out EVERY
> > distfile for reasons I don't understand. Anyone have a clue as to
> > why, or what the frak is going on?
> 
> I can't tell you authoritatively, but I would be very surprised if
> this problem were not the result of the recent bsd.port.mk changes
> that removed MD5 checksums, and renamed the variable that refers to
> the distinfo file.
> 

It looks like distviper in sysutils/bsdadminscripts has the same
problem.


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