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Old July 13th, 2011, 14:03
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Hi,

My FreeBSD machine's port collections are updated, checked etc via the portsnap, portaudit and portmaster. If there's any new updates to my installed ports, they will be found by a daily portmaster -L and an email sent to me if there's any.

So, today I had two updates available:

Code:
===>>> New version available: en-freebsd-doc-20110710
===>>> New version available: p5-libwww-6.02
Super. I go root and normally I would just issue portmaster -a and things would pretty much take care of themselves. But not today.

portmaster goes into what seems to be a loop when trying to update p5-libwww:

Code:
===>>> Launching child to update p5-libwww-5.837 to p5-libwww-6.02
        p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-
5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-
5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-
5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-
5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-
5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-
5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-
5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-
5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-
5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> 
p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837 >> p5-libwww-5.837
For each loop, another " >> p5-libwww-5.837" is added to the already long list seen above. I have really absolutely no clue as to what causes this. I have tried rerunning all that I could think of; portsnap update, portmaster. When I terminate the loop, I get an equally long list of build/install processes being terminated ("===>>> Build/Install for www/p5-libwww exiting due to signal").

I'm a bit puzzled as why it suddenly breaks. Have any of you seen this behaviour?

Best regards,
Klaus
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Old July 13th, 2011, 14:32
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Read /usr/ports/UPDATING:
Quote:
20110711:
AFFECTS: users of www/p5-libwww
AUTHOR: mandree@FreeBSD.org

portmaster cannot process the upgrade of www/p5-libwww from version
5 to version 6. To upgrade p5-libwww, use portupgrade instead, or
deinstall p5-libwww before reinstalling:

If you use portmaster:
# pkg_delete -f 'p5-libwww-5*' ; portmaster www/p5-libwww

If you use portupgrade, no special treatment is necessary.
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Quoting myself:

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/usr/ports/UPDATING contains notes about updating ports that require special procedures. Always, yes always, read this file for special notes before updating ports.

Only entries that have been added since the last time you updated ports are relevant.
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I didn't think too much about it, so I went in without thinking. I've checked the UPDATING and everything's fine now.

My apologies, for not being thorough enough from the beginning
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It seems I cannot edit my posts, but to sum up - lesson learned. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I'll not forget UPDATING again
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You'll be able to edit your posts after you've been around long enough (I think it's 10 posts and 10 days of registration).

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Thanks for asking, I was having the same issue almost one year later and your post resolved it
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