[Bug 297065] ports-mgmt/pkg: pkg-2.8.1: pkg update -r FreeBSD-ports creates the db file with a size of 1.6 Giga(!)bytes

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297065

Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to p5B2EA84B3 from comment #3)

See:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkg/2026-July/002169.html

which reported, in response to an example of a large file issue:

QUOTE
From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:52:54 UTC
On Tue 21 Jul 12:04, Ronald Klop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The FreeBSD:14:i386_quarterly_data.pkg file is 36 times bigger than the previous one.
> -  9230856 Jul 19 06:36 FreeBSD:14:i386_quarterly_data.pkg
> +364977210 Jul 21 06:37 FreeBSD:14:i386_quarterly_data.pkg
> Regards,
> Ronald.
> 

Issue found should be back to normal soon, thanks for reporting.

Best regards,
Bapt
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The two types of files, data.pkg vs. /var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-ports/db ,
having large sizes may be aspects of one problem for all I know.

Note:
As some of the port-package builders for aarch64 take much longer to
do builds and related activity (main aarch64 can take over 10 days
for 35000+ port builds to complete), it might be that some builders
are still not done for the issue for all I know. But this could also
mean that the timing was such that some never had the context to
produce the bad size, not starting in the bad time frame.

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