problems with half installed ports

[Chris Rees]

On 11 April 2013 11:19, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes, while compiling all my ports, I encounter the following
> problem:
>
> Say, we are installing ports/A which depends on ports/B; the Makefile
> detects the dependency and goes to install ports/B; if now during the
> final installation process, some files are already delivered to
> /usr/local, some files not, the system goes down (by intention because
> it's time to go out), before the installation of ports/B is fully done
> and registered to /var/db/pkg, next time when you restart installing
> ports/A it often sees, because the file referenced in the Makefile
> was allready installed (while others not), it thinks that ports/B was
> installed fine and proceeds with ports/A which later (or even in some
> other area) gives an error due to missing files of ports/B;
>
> I think, the only solution is that the dependency is not only based on
> some (random) file of B, but on the fact if B was *fully* installed and
> registered in /var/db/pkg;
>
> comments?

Installing a port isn't atomic by definition; the larger ones have
loads of files that need installed.

If I read your description carefully, your solution is to simply avoid
interrupting during the installation phase.

Chris