what's wrong with my ports???

[Duane Winner]

Hello all,

This problem has been recurring on my laptop (5.2.1-RELEASE-p9) for the 
past few weeks and I'm scratching my head.

Very frequently, I'll go to portinstall something, and I'll get several 
stop errors, and the build will fail.

But if I do a "rm -rf /usr/ports", then re-cvsup my ports collection, I 
can successfully build whatever port I was trying at the time. However, 
a few days later (or whatever), I'll try to build another port, and it 
will start all over. I delete /usr/ports, cvsup again, then I'm fine. 
This has happened several times over the past few weeks and the whole 
manual cvsup'ing to refresh my entire /usr/ports every time is getting 
old. (Although I've noticed I can sometimes get away with just deleting 
the /usr/ports/... directory of the port I'm trying to build and 
cvsup'ing again.)

I'm keeping my ports current the same way on a workstation in at work, 
and I've had no problems there, so I know it has to be something that's 
wrong on my laptop.

Here is the output of the latest port failure (fwbuilder):

===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for net-snmp-5.1.2
2 out of 4 hunks failed--saving rejects to 
agent/mibgroup/ucd-snmp/diskio.c.rej
 >> Patch patch-diskio.c failed to apply cleanly.
 >> Patch(es) patch-Makefile.in patch-aa patch-auto_nlist.c 
patch-configure.in applied cleanly.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/security/libfwbuilder.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/security/fwbuilder.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa 
/tmp/portinstall79078.0 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
         ! security/fwbuilder    (patch error)
--->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed


Thank for any feedback!

-Duane