"skipping non-regular file" during selfupdate

[William Davis]

On Jul 18, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> 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 The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated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
>


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