installing ports xorg

[Mel Flynn]

On Sunday 22 March 2009 07:04:14 Glen Barber wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm getting ZERO feedback when I install the xorg metaport, updated
> > ports tree today.
> >
> > # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
> > # make install
> > #
> >
> >
> >
> > So what am i missing?
>
> If xorg is already installed, you won't see any output.  This is
> "expected" behavior, as far as I can tell.

No. This is expected behavior if make -V INSTALL_COOKIE -C /usr/ports/x11/xorg 
exists, which can happen if:
1) You installed xorg on this machine and didn't make clean afterwards and now 
try the install again.
2) You have /usr/ports mounted via nfs or nullfs from another machine or the 
host system in a jail and have not set WRKDIRPREFIX. You installed xorg on 
this other machine or the host system and did not make clean.
3) You have WRKDIRPREFIX set and that directory is mounted via nfs/nullfs. 
Same applies as in 2)
4) You or some software ran:
   touch `make -V INSTALL_COOKIE -C /usr/ports/x11/xorg`
 
> What happens on 'make
> deinstall; make fetch-recursive; make install' ?

This can be bad as deinstall will only delete the install and package cookie. 
In other words, it will reuse the build and configure. If you were expecting 
to upgrade your port, then this has unexpected results, especially with meta 
ports.

In 90% of the case you will want to run make clean. Only if you want to reuse 
a build you've done (for jails or on other machine, with same architecture and 
OS version), you can use deinstall.

However, deinstall relies on /var/db/pkg, specifically if pkg_info cannot find 
the port, it will be assumed it's not installed. It will go ahead and install 
then, which can leave your installed ports with multiple versions of the same 
software.
-- 
Mel