portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now?
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
ml at t-b-o-h.net
Sun Aug 5 23:55:45 PDT 2007
>
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:01:51AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:10:42PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've noticed that recent version(s?) of portupgrade seem to update
> > > > > > the +CONTENTS of *EVERY* package on my system, not just the ones it used to
> > > > > > actually make a difference to. Is there a way to revert to the old behaviour?
> > > > > > With 915 ports (WAS only around 600 before the recent Xorg upgrade) its a
> > > > > > killer. On my Soekris with a CF drive, and only 57 ports, its still killing
> > > > > > that CF chip.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please show us how you came to this conclusion.
> > > > >
> > > > > Kris
> > > > >
> > > > "script" output from a recent update :
> > > >
> > > > ---> Upgrade of sysutils/bsdstats started at: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:52:00 -0400
> > > > ---> Upgrading 'bsdstats-5.3' to 'bsdstats-5.3_4' (sysutils/bsdstats)
> > > > OK? [yes]
> > > > ---> Build of sysutils/bsdstats started at: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:52:09 -0400
> > > > ---> Building '/usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats'
> > > > ===> Cleaning for bsdstats-5.3_4
> > > > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> > > > ===> Extracting for bsdstats-5.3_4
> > > > ===> Patching for bsdstats-5.3_4
> > > > ===> Configuring for bsdstats-5.3_4
> > > > ---> Build of sysutils/bsdstats ended at: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:52:10 -0400 (cons
> > > > umed 00:00:00)
> > > > ---> Updating dependency info
> > > > ---> Modifying /var/db/pkg/Hermes-1.3.3_2/+CONTENTS
> > >
> > > Is it actually writing to these files, or just examining them to see
> > > whether they need to be updated?
> > >
> > > Kris
> > >
> > I was truthfully only going by what I believed it was saying, that
> > it was really modifying them.
> >
> > I upgraded fetchyahoo tonite after I emailed this, and if I do an
> > "ls -lt" in /var/db/pkg I see :
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 15891456 Aug 6 00:59 pkgdb.db
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 fetchyahoo-2.10.9
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Compress-Zlib-2.005
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Crypt-SSLeay-0.56
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.005
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-libwww-5.805
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 openssl-0.9.8e_1
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Authen-SASL-2.10_1
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Digest-MD5-2.36
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-MIME-Tools-5.420_1,2
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Net-1.21,1
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.005
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-GSSAPI-0.24
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-HTML-Parser-3.56
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-IO-Compress-Base-2.005
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Convert-BinHex-1.119
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Digest-1.15
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-IO-stringy-2.110
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-MIME-Base64-3.07
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:59 p5-Mail-Tools-1.74
> >
> > (etc)
> >
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:58 bsdstats-5.3_4
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:58 Hermes-1.3.3_2
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:58 ImageMagick-6.3.3.5_1
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:58 ORBit-0.5.17_3
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:58 ORBit2-2.14.8
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:58 OpenEXR-1.4.0
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:58 OpenSP-1.5.2
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:58 Xaw3d-1.5E_2
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 6 00:58 aalib-1.4.r5_3
> >
> > I thought the timestamp of a directory only changes if a
> > file was added or modified in the directory.
> >
> > If I do the "ls -lt */\+CONTENTS", I see :
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2386 Aug 6 00:59 fetchyahoo-2.10.9/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1113 Aug 6 00:59 xset-1.0.2/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 976 Aug 6 00:59 xsetmode-1.0.0/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1003 Aug 6 00:59 xsetpointer-1.0.0/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1204 Aug 6 00:59 xsetroot-1.0.1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1597 Aug 6 00:59 xsm-1.0.1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1149 Aug 6 00:59 xstdcmap-1.0.1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5124 Aug 6 00:59 xterm-228/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1157 Aug 6 00:59 xtrans-1.0.3/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3097 Aug 6 00:59 xtrap-1.0.2/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6643 Aug 6 00:59 xv-3.10a_7/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4629 Aug 6 00:59 xvattr-1.3_3/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 414 Aug 6 00:59 xvid-1.1.3,1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1689 Aug 6 00:59 xvidtune-1.0.1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1017 Aug 6 00:59 xvinfo-1.0.1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1104 Aug 6 00:59 xwd-1.0.1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1149 Aug 6 00:59 xwininfo-1.0.2/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5062 Aug 6 00:59 xword-0.07_3/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 777 Aug 6 00:59 xwud-1.0.1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3627 Aug 6 00:59 yasm-0.6.1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 349 Aug 6 00:59 zh-chm2html-0.1a/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 441 Aug 6 00:59 zip-2.32/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78239 Aug 6 00:59 zsh-4.3.4_1/+CONTENTS
> >
> > (etc)
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 301 Aug 6 00:58 bsdstats-5.3_4/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2156 Aug 6 00:58 Hermes-1.3.3_2/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 64643 Aug 6 00:58 ImageMagick-6.3.3.5_1/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8741 Aug 6 00:58 ORBit-0.5.17_3/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7005 Aug 6 00:58 ORBit2-2.14.8/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10787 Aug 6 00:58 OpenEXR-1.4.0/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 18170 Aug 6 00:58 OpenSP-1.5.2/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10272 Aug 6 00:58 Xaw3d-1.5E_2/+CONTENTS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 20576 Aug 6 00:58 aalib-1.4.r5_3/+CONTENTS
> >
> > So I'm still going with the file being modified. I guess even if
> > its opening the file, reading it, and then writing it back out unmodified,
> > its still disk operations that the CF especially can't handle. (Then again,
> > the laptop isn't doing too well.
> >
> > Aug 6 01:45:53 himinbjorg smartd[727]: Device: /dev/ad0, 2 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> > Aug 6 01:45:53 himinbjorg smartd[727]: Device: /dev/ad0, 3 Offline uncorrectable sectors
> >
> > (Thats only started too since it was pounded during Xorg upgrade)
> >
> > I still really would only like it to touch the files it REALLY
> > needs to.
>
> OK, talk to the maintainer.
>
Ok. But I part of my question to people , and reason for posting it
here, is the old "Is anyone else seeing this". When/if you use portupgrade, does
it do the same for you? Or is it just something that I happened some how to inherit
on atleast 2 of my machines?
Thanks, Tuc
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