removing non-existent ports from /var/db/pkg ?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 02/10/2012 09:08, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I have on one system:
> 
> # ls /var/db/pkg
> apr-1.4.6.1.4.1_1               help2man-1.40.10                pkgconf-0.8.4
> auditfile                       help2man-1.40.11                pkgconf-0.8.5
> autoconf-2.69                   help2man-1.40.12                pkgconf-0.8.6
> automake-1.12.2                 libconfuse-2.7                  pkgconf-0.8.7_2
> automake-1.12.3                 libxml2-2.7.8_5                 pkgconf-0.8.8
> automake-1.12.4                 local.sqlite                    pkgconf-0.8.9
> ganglia-monitor-core-3.1.7_4    mpfr-3.1.1                      python27-2.7.3_3
> gcc-4.7.2.20120721              neon29-0.29.6_4                 rsync-3.0.9_2
> gcc-4.7.2.20120728              pcre-8.31_1                     sqlite3-3.7.14
> gcc-4.7.2.20120804              pkg-1.0                         subversion-1.7.5
> gcc-4.7.2.20120825              pkg-1.0.r4                      subversion-1.7.6
> gcc-4.7.2.20120908              pkg-1.0.r4_1                    sudo-1.8.5.p3
> gcc-4.7.3.20120929              pkg-1.0.r5_1                    sudo-1.8.6.p3_1
> gmake-3.82_1                    pkg-1.0.r6_1
> # pkg info -xo gcc-4.7
> gcc-4.7.3.20120929: lang/gcc47
> # 
> 
> I wonder why I have old versions of several ports,
> which no longer exist, e.g. gcc47.
> 
> I update with portmaster.
> Does the normal update procedure
> remove the old version entry
> from /var/db/pkg if the update
> has been successful?

This is an unfortunate effect of using pkgng to handle packages and
portmaster+patches to build them.  The old pkg_tools were the owners of
that whole /var/db/pkg/ sub-directory structure, and used to take care
of deleting old entries once ports were updated or removed.  portmaster
stores some of its meta-data in those directories but it doesn't itself
remove any that are out of date.  pkg only uses the data in local.sqlite
-- so there's nothing left willing to clean up the mess.

This is something that should probably be added to the portmaster patch
when used with pkgng.

	Cheers,

	Matthew