Subject: Re: pkg_rolling-replace persistent problem
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 11/26/2007 19:11:01
On Mon Nov 26 2007 at 10:03:15 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Can you clean out all workdirs, and then "pkg_rolling-replace -uvn" and
> save that, and then try to do 'make replace package clean' as root in
> the first package?
> 
> I am remembering that make replace seems to not work right when run as a
> normal user.  That is probably the problem here.

You are right, running as root fixed it.  Why would that break after
50-or-so packages?  Did it start doing something differently after the
initial ones?

Is anyone working on fixing it?  (not volunteering, just curious)

thanks!

-- 
Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                     Of course he runs NetBSD
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