stray file on buildbot machine

"Markus W. Weißmann" mww at macports.org
Fri Sep 9 03:30:14 PDT 2011


On 9 Sep 2011, at 11:16, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Sep 8, 2011, at 15:39, Markus W. Weißmann wrote:
>> ...
>> I'm not sure how to fix this for any build, but could you just delete /opt/local/bin/scheme48-config on the buildbot machine for now?
> 
> This does need to be fixed in the portfile. It's not just a stray file on the build machine; it's a stray file on any user's machine who has installed this port, and an activation failure when they try to upgrade to the fixed version:
> ...
> Examples of how this was fixed in other ports can be found in r83569 and r46351.
> 

I think this behavior is extremely dangerous -- deleting files you think you left behind yourself and hope don't belong to another port or whatever. I hope trace mode will prevent this from happening?


-Markus


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