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

olli hauer ohauer at gmx.de
Mon Aug 27 21:43:56 UTC 2012


On 2012-08-27 23:23, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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);
> 
> ?
> 

will do,

could you please provide a diff

fetch 'https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/blob/master/libpkg/pkg_manifest.c#L395'
gives only glibber and I don't want to enable javascrit to grab a simple patch ...


--
Regards,
olli


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