Re: Update Problem

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 23 Apr 2010 at 13:05, Greg Troxel wrote:

> 
>   I had rar flagged as notouch and pretty sure those were 
>   specified when I used pkg_chk/pkg_rr
> 
>   anyway rar disapeared followed by anything requiring rar.
> 
> it sounds like you are using "pkg_chk -u".  Your call, but pkg_rr is not
> supposed to remove dependencies - just do 'make replace'.  If you turn
> on DESTDIR, then it should be doing this via pkg_add -u after building a
> binary package.  The intended behavior is that pkg_rr may fail, but it
> won't leave you system with (much) missing - zero missing packages with
> destdir, and one without destdir.
> 
> If you send a patch to pkg_rr to have a variable akin to rebuild and
> automatic and to exclude packages with that variable, I'll look at it
> and very probably commit it.  I haven't done this partially because I
> haven't figured out a good name.  I lean to 'norebuild' because
> 'exclude' is only about pkg_rr, and this tag is intended to be
> persistent.
> 
>   After previous update there were 1324 packages installed
> 
>   pkg_rr knocked that back to 640 and there were lots of 
>   fix problem then continue
> 
> I don't get this.
> 
>   That took total installed to 652 and after that it's 
>   now 2 days later without further interruption, 1130
>   installed and update still working away on openoffice.
> 
> again this sounds like pkg_chk -u, not pkg_rr.

I now think that's likely as I thought I had rar
deselected but mustn't have.

A few of the fix problems were due to "make clean"
failures with permission denied, ie make install
stage as su-root seemed to have left files with root
permissions in work directories. I should have kept 
the logs.


> I have now been doing 'pkg_rolling-replace -uv -k' and then solving
> problems afterwards.  I find a lot of things get built and not too much
> broken, and that the broken things are usually more leaf-like than
> core-like.
> 
> 
> It's impressive of pkgsrc to be able to do an automatic from-source
> update of 1000 packages and have even 950 build ok at any random time.
> 

Yes, I've found once the odd problems are resolved it
gets through reasonably fast especially when there are
packages available.


David