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From: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com>
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Subject: portmaster creates unrequested backup
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>Number:         172274
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       ports-mgmt/portmaster creates unrequested backup
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 02 15:30:12 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    Tue Oct 02 17:18:42 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Fri Oct 05 01:49:02 UTC 2012
>Originator:     jb
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 #0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RC1 FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 #0: Tue Aug 14 03:56:40 UTC 2012     root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
Portmaster remembers "create backup" option, which is not what the user
wanted.
# portmaster -b -g libreoffice
# portmaster gcc
$ ls -al /usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup/
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  118533356 Oct  2 17:10 gcc-4.6.4.20120831.tbz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  102685710 Oct  2 15:30 libreoffice-3.5.4.tbz

>How-To-Repeat:
as above with and without options (with any two ports).
>Fix:
clear options on every 'portmaster <port>'.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: dougb 
State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 2 17:16:14 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  

portmaster does not remember settings between invocations. There are a few 
possibilities for what you're seeing, including an rc file setting that you 
have forgotten about. But ultimately if you don't need the backups, delete them.  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=172274 
>Unformatted:
