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Re: How to deal with bulk build's "/var/qmail" problem?



On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:14 AM, John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost> wrote:
> They are complaining that "/var/qmail" already exists and that it needs to
> be deleted before continuing.  One package is creating that directory and it
> never gets removed afterward, so the following packages that are sensitive
> to it fail.
>
> I assume I'm not the first person to have noticed this.  How do you deal
> with it to get those following packages building too?

The way pbulk does it is by clearing /usr/pkg and unpacking a
bootstrap tarball before _each_ package is built.

--Benny.


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