Re: Weird portupgrade error on current amd64 [and powerpc64?] (-r298192 and later; also now on stable as of -r298920 and later)

On Mon May 2 15:44:19 UTC 2016 Tomoaki AOKI wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Today I encountered this problem on stable/10 and could determine the
> problematic commit is r298920, "Update file to 5.26".
> 
> This commit is MFC of r298192, and reverting it fixes the issue on
> head, too.
> 
> What I did (for stable/10) is...
> 
>  1) Running at r298836: No problem.
>  2) Update to r298920:  Problem is reproduced!
>  3) Downgrade to previous commit (r298889): No problem.
> 
> 3) was done by `zfs rollback` to r298836 state, `svnlite up r298889',
> and proceeded usual rebuilding procedure. 
> 
> Fortunately, there was only 3 commits between r298836 and r298920,
> and I got right one in first attempt.
> 
> But unfortunately, fixing portupgrade[-devel] or file/libmagic beyonds
> my hand. :-<

I have taken Tomoaki's note above and my note (below) and have submitted 209211.

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Mark Millard
markmi_at_dsl-only.net

On 2016-Apr-26, at 11:16 AM, Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote:

> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2016-April/102983.html reported a "Broken pipe" problem with portupgrade on 11.0-CURRENT on amd64.
> 
> FYI: I had the/a "Broken pipe" portupgrade problem on powerpc64 under 11.0-CURRENT -r298518 on 2016-Apr-23 updating from /usr/ports -r413230 to -r413919. If this might be the same I do not know. The relevant part of the script log is:
> 
>> ====> Compressing man pages (compress-man)
>> --->  Backing up the old version
>> --->  Uninstalling the old version
>> [Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 68 packages found - done]
>> --->  Deinstalling 'perl5-5.22.1_7'
>> [Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 68 packages found - done]
>> ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>>        ! perl5-5.22.1_7        (Broken pipe)
>> --->  Skipping 'ports-mgmt/portlint' (portlint-2.16.8) because a requisite package 'perl5-5.22.1_7' (lang/perl5.22) failed (specify -k to force)
> 
> ruby was still lang/ruby21 at the time.
> 
> I used portmaster instead and everything worked fine.

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Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net