I think there should be a policy change here.
As it seems it is causing more work than it saves
doing unclean builds.
We could just simply add a option -u for unclean for those
that need it.
regards
Keith.
Am 02.12.2011 um 03:30 schrieb Ryan Schmidt:
>
> On Dec 1, 2011, at 18:11, Roger Pack wrote:
>
>> Maybe what it could do it warn when it's doing a "dirty" installation,
>> so that it's clearer more quickly why something may have failed (i.e.
>> you see
>> $ port install xxx
>> warning: installing over a previous installation
>> ...
>> fetch failed please check your log
>>
>> (it's more immediately obvious *why* the fetch may have failed).
>
> That's an idea... we do certainly get dozens of tickets filed per week with
> main.logs attached that were not from clean build attempts, and are thus
> often useless, and we waste time explaining this to each reporter and ask
> them to clean and try again. My suggestion is that instead of always warning
> at the beginning of unclean builds (since the reason we allow unclean builds
> at all is that often they'll work just fine), we should modify the error
> message printed if an error does end up occurring after an unclean build.
> Currently we always print:
>
> Log for foo is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_path_to_foo/foo/main.log
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
>
> I claim we should print that only if it was a clean build. If it was not a
> clean build, we should print:
>
> Log for foo is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_path_to_foo/foo/main.log
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> Clean and try again before considering reporting this as a bug.
>
> This would also cut down on the so far 28 known duplicates of 29223, though
> we should really fix that properly as well.
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29223
>
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