On 04/02/14 09:44, Colin Percival wrote: > On 02/03/14 22:22, Xin Li wrote: >> On 2/3/14, 9:59 PM, Nikola Pavlović wrote: >>> Was there a *huge* update to ports tree tonight between around 00:20 and >>> 06:30 CET? Portsnap just fetched 24720 patches (this is more or less >>> every port I guess), but I can't find anything in >>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/ that would correspond to this. I'm >>> a bit worried. :) >> >> This may be related to my upgrade operation on the portsnap builder, which >> happened around UTC midnight, right after a new "snap" snapshot is taken. > > I'm pretty sure this resulted from changes to libarchive / bsdtar. With > them generating different tarballs for the same input, the portsnap build > thinks that everything has changed. > > ... there's actually code on the portsnap builder to revert such changes, > but I don't think delphij knew about it and I didn't realize he was > upgrading the portsnap builder until too late. >
I see, thanks. This sounds like mystery solved, but I can't be the only one who's seen this, so just to be sure---has anyone else had the same thing happen? (Unfortunately, I don't have another FreeBSD machine at hand, unrelated to the one from the first post, to check.)
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