"skipping non-regular file" during selfupdate

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Jul 18, 2008, at 6:09 PM, William Davis wrote:
>
> On Jul 18, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jul 18, 2008, at 15:11, William Davis wrote:
>>
>>> macintosh:~ frstan$ sudo port -d selfupdate
>>
...
>>> skipping non-regular file "zope/zope-validation/work"
>>> skipping non-regular file "zope/zope-zopetree/work"
>>> skipping non-regular file "zope/zope-zopezen/work"
>>> skipping non-regular file "zope/zope-zphotoslides/work"
>>> skipping non-regular file "zope/zope-zsyncer/work"
>>>
>>> snip
>>>
>>> Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.600
>>>
>>> The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated
>>> DEBUG: Setting ownership to root
>>> selfupdate done!
>>>
>>>
>>> What is this?
>>
>> When you start using a port (e.g. "sudo port install <portname>" or
>> (in MacPorts earlier than 1.7.0) even things like "sudo port
>> livecheck <portname>" or "sudo port lint <portname>"), MacPorts
>> creates a work area for the port, and creates a symlink "work" in
>> the port's directory pointing to that work area. rsync is skipping
>> over these symlinks when synchronizing the ports tree. This is
>> normal. This symlink and the work area can be removed by doing "sudo
>> port clean --work <portname>" or you can clean all ports' work areas
>> with "sudo port clean --work all".
>>
>
> Thank you Ryan, but after doing "sudo port -d clean --work all" the
> command "sudo port -d selfupdate" produced the same series of
> "skipping non-regular file faa/foo/work"
>

Hmm, odd.  What does

$ ls -la `port dir zope-validation`

show?  Maybe seeing what one looks like could help in figuring out  
that oddity?

Bryan


> Anyway, this behavior just started but Ive been doing selfupdate daily
> for a year and never seen it before.  And I have never done anything
> thing at all with some of these -- zope for example.
>
> William Davis
> frstanATbellsouthDOTnet
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>
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