How identify and remove leftover files on buildbots?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 2, 2014, at 6:31 AM, Marko Käning wrote:

> thanks for your very helpful hints!
> 
> On 02 Nov 2014, at 13:20 , Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> Try uninstalling R before trying again. When activating, it may be using the pre-activate block in the portfile that was current at the time the archive was built, rather than the pre-activate block in the latest version of the portfile.
> 
> Hmmm, as I need to perform this trick on all buildbots, so I am not sure whether this is the right approach. The buildbots would only deactivate and not uninstall themselves either, right?!

I am not certain what the buildbot does in the case of an unsuccessful activation. You're right that in the case of a successful activation, the ports are then deactivated, not uninstalled.

If this turns out to be a problem, you can increase the port's revision.