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

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 27 21:53:37 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:43:54PM +0200, olli hauer wrote:
> 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

sure: http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/patch-no-test-duplicate-from-manifest
just add it to you files/ directory

regards,
Bapt
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