Re: pkg/42607 (pkg_add hangs in ftp when there are dependencies (multiple packages))

[Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42607; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkg-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/42607 (pkg_add hangs in ftp when there are dependencies 
(multiple
 packages))
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 15:47:48 -0400

 It looks like things are not fully OK as yet!
 
 Last night I went to do some updates to NetBSD machines like so:
 
   o Install latest 5.1_RC1 sets (from a local build) on all
     systems.
 
   o Did pkg_rolling-replace -vu on the build box.
 
   o Ran pkg_info -aX | gzip -c > $PKG_PATH/pkg_summary.gz
 
   o On the target: Move /usr/sbin/pkg_add out of the way:
 
       mv /usr/sbin/pkg_add /usr/sbin/pkg_add.old
 
     (because it chokes on >1 package as is the reason for
     this PR)
 
   o On the target: pkg_chk -bu -P $PKG_PATH
       i.e. ftp://build-machine/pub/packages/All
 
 The update begins fine and starts processing all the packages. But then 
 I start to get ftp connection failures as in "connection refused". Even 
 on a manually executed "ftp -a build-machine". inetd on the ftp server 
 starts refusing ftp connections!
 
 To recover, I restarted inetd on the ftp server. And did the pkg_chk -bu 
 -P.. and repeated several times until all packages were up-to-date.
 
 Unfortunately, since things are acting so strangely, I can no longer 
 vouch for the goodness of this fix.
 
 Louis