PKG_NG: pkg deinstall fails with "argument list too long"

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:22:27PM +0200, olli hauer wrote:
> On 2012-08-27 20:03, Stefan Esser wrote:
> > PKG_NG seems to have introduced a limit on the size of ports that can be
> > deinstalled:
> > 
> > # cd /usr/ports/math/lapack
> > #  make deinstall
> > ===>  Deinstalling for math/lapack
> > ===>   Deinstalling lapack-3.4.0_2
> > The following packages will be deinstalled:
> > 
> >         lapack-3.4.0_2
> > 
> > The deinstallation will free 28 MB
> > Deinstalling lapack-3.4.0_2...lapack-3.4.0_2 is required by:
> > qrupdate-1.1.1, deleting anyway
> > pkg: Cannot run script(DEINSTALL): Argument list too long
> > *** [deinstall] Error code 3
> > 
> > This is on an up-to-date -CURRENT with freshly fetched ports and
> > pkg-1.0.r6_1 and WITH_PKGNG=yes in /etc/make.conf.
> > 
> > Regards, STefan
> 
> One limitation I found was if the port has a really long pkg-plist
> the `pkg repo' command times are going to the roof.
> 
> For example `pkg repo' a folder with metasploit.txz only takes
> in a ramdisk and everything else on SSD ~80+ seconds.
> Extracting the packages takes ~3s. in RAM or on SSD (pkgng issue #322).
> 
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Can you try changing:
https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/blob/master/libpkg/pkg_manifest.c#L395 to:
pkg_addfile(pkg, sbuf_get(tmp), pkg_sum, false);

?

regards,
Bapt
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