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

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

On 5/25/2012 10:14, John Marino wrote:
> 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.
>
> Okay, I checked the bootstrap. It's only dealing with /usr/pkg as you
> said. The problem is with /var/qmail, not /usr/pkg/var/qmail, so the
> bootstrap isn't coming into play here.
>
> John

I'm looking at the script libexec/client-clean, and right before the 
tarball extraction is the line:
rm  -rf ${cur_destdir}${varbase}/qmail 2> /dev/null || true.

So it's trying to clear that, but one of the variables must have the 
wrong value.

John