Merging rev-upgrade

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jan 3 15:02:30 PST 2012


On 2012-1-4 09:13 , Clemens Lang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:32:24PM +1100, Joshua Root wrote:
>> Looks like building the database of binaries needs to be made to
>> tolerate files that are missing or unreadable due to permissions. My
>> first upgrade after the merge ended thus:
>>
>> --->  Updating database of binaries: 67%Error: Updating database of
>> binaries failed
>> lstat(/opt/local/var/spool/postfix/maildrop/.turd_postfix):no such file
>> or directory
> 
> That sounds like an inconsistent registry to me, but nonetheless
> rev-upgrade handles this gracefully as of r88511.

Not internally inconsistent, but inconsistent with reality, sure. Files
registered to active ports shouldn't be deleted but sometimes they are.

- Josh


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