old packages not saved

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Fri Aug 5 14:48:11 EDT 2011


On 8/5/11 1:53 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:15:56AM -0700, Jason Helfman thus spake:
>> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 11:46:31AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke thus spake:
>>> On 8/4/11 3:03 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if anything has changed in the tinderbox code that
>>>> would
>>>> have it not save old packages? I am curious if there is a configuration
>>>> issue that is not providing this functionality, or if this is a native
>>>> functionality that isn't working, or something completely different....
>>>>
>>>> I have not run a tccleanup, and there are lots of older packages that
>>>> aren't
>>>> around anymore.
>>>
>>> Nothing has changed.  Old packages should be preserved unless you have
>>> some other cleanup thing happening.  The only time an old package would
>>> be overwritten is if one of its dependencies changed.  However, if the
>>> version of said package also changed, then both version 1 and version 2
>>> would remain.  Version 1 would be untouched.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
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>>
>> I know you are right, and I have seen this before in another tinderbox
>> I had
>> setup awhile ago, but in two tinderboxes I have setup now, this is not
>> the
>> case.
>>
>> Is there something I can do to diagnose what the issue may be.
>>
>> My tinderboxes are following HEAD of cvs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>>
> 
> As a test, I took a package that has already been built, and had an
> associated package on the filesystem. I added a PORTREVISION, and rebuilt
> it, and now the only version that is there is the one with the
> PORTREVISION.
> 
> Stumped.

Are you running with -cleanpackages?

Joe

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