With the most recent pkg_install, directories are removed when the

last file in a directory is removed.  This might cause common and
expected-to-be-existing directories in /usr/pkg to be removed, and
a subsequent attempt at installing a file to the now non-existent
directory will instead create a file with the name of the expected
directory.

This will create PLIST errors for the package in question, but also will
cause the erroneously named file to not be removed on package removal.

This can cause cascading bulk build failures for subsequent packages.
To prevent this, after each package is done, check if some of the
common top-level expected-to-be directories are now files, and
remove them and emit an error message if so.

I *think* I already fixed the single package which had the unfortunate
problem of not declaring "include" as an installation directory, but
this should prevent the problem from re-occurring in the future as well.

Thanks to joerg@ for the hint for pulling in the value of PREFIX.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mk/bulk/build b/mk/bulk/build
index 135dc8cf418..f9a2f4430ee 100644
--- a/mk/bulk/build
+++ b/mk/bulk/build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# $NetBSD: build,v 1.105 2008/06/13 21:52:16 sketch Exp $
+# $NetBSD: build,v 1.106 2009/07/09 12:46:49 he Exp $
 
 #
 # Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 Hubert Feyrer <hubertf@NetBSD.org>
@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ load_vars () {
 		BULK_DBFILE DEPENDSFILE INDEXFILE ORDERFILE STARTFILE
 		SUPPORTSFILE BULK_BUILD_ID_FILE BUILDLOG BROKENFILE
 		BROKENWRKLOG
+		PREFIX
 		AWK GREP MAIL_CMD MKDIR PAX PERL5 SED
 		PKG_DELETE PKG_INFO PKGBASE"
 
@@ -333,12 +334,22 @@ do_real_bulk_build () {
 				$makeargs </dev/null | post_filter_cmd
 			) || true
 			echo "$pkgdir" >> "${main_buildlog}"
+			check_pkg_dirs
 		fi
 	done
 
 	echo "build> Build finished."
 }
 
+check_pkg_dirs () {
+	for d in bin etc include info lib libexec man sbin share; do
+		if [ -f $PREFIX/$d ]; then
+			echo "Removing file, should be dir: $PREFIX/$d" >&2
+			rm -f $PREFIX/$d
+		fi
+	done
+}
+
 # clean up installed packages left over
 do_bulk_cleanup () {