/tmp/portslicense.*

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Wed Mar 23 17:52:05 UTC 2011


J. Hellenthal <jhell at DataIX.net> wrote:

> > I notice that empty portslicense.* files keep accumulating in /tmp.
> > From time to time I manually delete them, but shouldn't the ports
> > framework remove them?
> 
> I haven't seen this happen once throughout the ports that I use.

Hmm.  I sort of assumed one such temp file would be created each
time a port is built...  Now that I'm actually looking at the time
stamps, I see that one is created for each "portsdb -Uu" run.

> Can you identify the port that its originating from if it is
> originating from ports at all ?

My best guess is that "make index" triggers this in a single port.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de



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