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Port upgrading leaves system unusable

Open bdrewery opened this issue 11 years ago • 3 comments

When a port is upgraded it is:

  1. Deinstalled
  2. Dependencies are then upgraded
  3. Dependencies are deleted as their own dependencies are upgraded
  4. As the chain is walked back up then the various ports are installed

This leaves the system missing many packages for a long period of time.

It would be much better if this upgraded dependencies first and then deinstalled/installed the upgraded port.

bdrewery avatar Jun 18 '14 18:06 bdrewery

The -t option seems to work as I expect. This also avoids the issue of portmaster losing control of building ports due to make all default changing to make stage (which installs run-depends) [https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189398]

bdrewery avatar Jun 18 '14 19:06 bdrewery

Ports r191960 changed this behavior

7. Split tracking of build and run depends to before and after the
port build respectively.

bdrewery avatar Jun 18 '14 20:06 bdrewery

I've just fallen victim to this bug. binutils got removed before updating indexinfo, which left the system in an unusable state.

  1. Does -t fix this then?
  2. How do we know when to apply it?

oparoz avatar Jan 06 '15 21:01 oparoz