old packages not saved

Jason Helfman jhelfman at e-e.com
Fri Aug 5 14:48:26 EDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 02:48:11PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke thus spake:
>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?

I'm not. Only with nullfs.

-jgh

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