portupgrade across NFS

[Michael Collette]

Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Michael Collette wrote:
>> This problem only occurs when using portupgrade.  Both pkg_delete and
>> pkg_deinstall work without error.  Also, everything else in the process
>> that portupgrade goes through appears to work properly.  Just that
>> /var/db/pkg directory won't delete when NFS mounted.
> 
> Have you tried the last (2.1.1) version?
> I've fixed a few problems and one of them looks like yours. But it's not
> relate to NFS however.

No luck.  I was back on 2.0.1 which I upgraded with pkg_delete and 
pkg_add.  Still the exact same error with deleting the /var/db/pkg 
directory.

Like I mentioned earlier, we've been going through the source code on 
this, libraries and all.  If you'd like to toss some tweaks for me to 
test out off list I'd be one very motivated tester here.  This glitch 
may really complicate my network setup here, so doing whatever it takes 
to fix this is high on my priority list.

Just a thought for an ugly hack, but might it be possible to force a 
check for that directory after it has supposedly been deleted, and if it 
exists manually delete it?

Thanks for getting back with me on this.  Going to continue to muck 
around with things a bit here to see if we can stumble across something 
that helps.

Later on,
-- 
Michael Collette
IT Manager
TestEquity LLC