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

[John Marino <mfl-commissioner%marino.st@localhost>]

On 5/25/2012 09:57, Benny Siegert wrote:
> 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.

Hi Benny,
So you are saying my bootstrap tarball is corrupt?

I'm using pbulk.
I'll unpack it and see what's there - clear out the garbage.

Thanks,
John