Sam Lawrance found a bug!

Sam Lawrance found a bug. If a port is deleted, then a file added back in, and then it’s removed, FreshPorts doesn’t know that the port is deleted.

He found this with x11/ruby-gnome. You can see that it is marked as an expired port. On 05 Nov 2005 08:07:45, kris removed it from the tree. FreshPorts would have marked it as DELETED. A short time later, he added a file Makefile.common back into the tree. FreshPorts would have marked the port as ACTIVE. Then kris remove that file. FreshPorts did not mark the file as deleted. FreshPorts only marks a port as deleted when the Makefile is removed.

I went to check if all the files under this port were marked as DELETED in the database. First I find the Element ID of the port:

freshports.org=# select pathname_id('ports/x11/ruby-gnome');
 pathname_id
-------------
       53098
(1 row)

Then I check all the files/directories under that point in the tree:

freshports.org=# select * from element where parent_id = 53098;
  id   |      name       | parent_id | directory_file_flag | status
-------+-----------------+-----------+---------------------+--------
 53103 | Makefile.common |     53098 | F                   | D
 53106 | pkg-plist       |     53098 | F                   | D
 53105 | pkg-descr       |     53098 | F                   | D
 53099 | distinfo        |     53098 | F                   | D
 53102 | Makefile        |     53098 | F                   | D
 53104 | pkg-comment     |     53098 | F                   | D
 53100 | files           |     53098 | D                   | A
(7 rows)

Good. All the files deleted (status = ‘D’, as in deleted). What about the files directory? Let’s check there too:

freshports.org=# select * from element where parent_id = 53100;
  id   |       name       | parent_id | directory_file_flag | status
-------+------------------+-----------+---------------------+--------
 53101 | patch-extconf.rb |     53100 | F                   | D
(1 row)

freshports.org=#

Good. Everything is gone. Perhaps I should change FreshPorts to verify a port is deleted using the above strategy.

In the meantime, I’ll fix this port up soon and scan the tree for other such problems.

See also Are all files deleted?

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