Hunks failed, is this bad?

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 11 16:36:52 PDT 2007


Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I hope you can help me.
> 
> I have a clean install of freebsd. I changed to /usr and made ports 
> directory. Then I ran portsnap fetch and then extract. Then I changed to 
> ports-mngmt/portmanager and did   make install clean.
> 
> When I try to install any port using either 'make install clean' or 
> 'portmanager www/lighttpd' (for example) I see hunks failed in stdout. 
> As an exaple I saw one of these flas by when installing lighttpd:
> 
> |--- /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk  Tue Nov  8 01:02:51 2005
> |+++ bsd.port.mk        Wed Nov 16 02:16:57 2005
> --------------------------
> Patching file bsd.port.mk using Plan A...
> Hunk #1 failed at 2049.
> 1 out of 1 hunks failed--s
> 
> As far as I can tell I see similar errors no matter what port I try to 
> install. Is this a problem?

Yes, and it doesn't make much sense either.  Nothing should be patching 
bsd.port.mk on the fly, and the date of 2005 is also suspicious.

Kris



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