How identify and remove leftover files on buildbots?

[Daniel J. Luke]

> On Nov 3, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> yes. Only it is what happened in the past. And now the files in question 
> are destrooted, and thus part of the image (as can also be seen in the 
> buildbot's log). And that's why port refuses to activate the image: Some files 
> contained in it are already present at the target location (unregistered).
> 
> The question at hand is how to get rid of the files that have been installed 
> without being registered _previously_.

the subversion-javahlbindings port used to create a symlink directly in $prefix (by mistake), so it does this now:

pre-activate	{
		#- this port used to create a symlink directly in ${prefix} which was fixed in 1.8.1_1
		#- we need to remove this symlink from ${prefix} though, so upgrades work
		#- this can eventually be removed, origionally added 2013-07-25
		set badfile ${prefix}/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.jnilib
		if {[file exists ${badfile}] && [registry_file_registered ${badfile}] == "0"} {
			if {[catch {delete ${badfile}}]} {
				ui_warn "Cannot delete ${badfile}; please remove it manually"
			}
		}

		}

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