port register/unregister hogs up resources and takes forever

[Robert Backhaus]

On 9/27/05, Michael C. Shultz <ringworm01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 26 September 2005 14:00, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > I submitted
> >
> >       http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/86310
> >
> > some time ago.
> >
> > Port registration/unregistration is also affected by the same problem with
> > the PACKAGE-DEPENDS-LIST script. Anyone feels like fixing it?
> >
> > You, probably, have a circular dependency somewhere. For example, until
> > very recently it was possible to hang oneself by defining both WITH_ESD and
> > WITH_ARTS.
> >
> >       -mi
>
> Just to let you know, I tested your patch with sysutils/portmanager by
> deleting a random few dependencies of gnome2 then running "portmanager -u"
> to see if they would be found and reinstalled.  Portmanager makes extensive
> use of "make all-depends-list" to find missing ports and the test passed with
> your changes.  Keep in mind though, it also works fine with the original
> bsd.port.mk.
>
> -Mike
>

Just for aditional info, pkg_db during portupgrade has been failing
for me recently, sig11 I beleive, on my home machine recently (now up
to 140-odd packages, IIRC). I have PKG_DBDRIVER set to bdb_btree in my
pkgtools.conf, which seems to have worked around the problem. YMMV