Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:50:54 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Long delays in 'pkg upgrade' and other mysteries .. Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=NkYJTXn=WFjG=QkfQcSM9cq5fJbor0rSM74SeaD-AuQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140715190250.Y50382@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20140715190250.Y50382@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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Ugh, so, there's a bunch of conflicts with package renames. You have to read /usr/ports/UPDATING to get the full list of what to modify. I haven't had this happen in months. The ports metadata side of things has gotten a lot better over the last year - you're just experiencing the handful of rounds of "incomplete metadata" and "wanton package renaming" hilarity that marred the whole binary package experience. (It got better. :-) -a On 15 July 2014 07:26, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > Dear Hive, > > On 9.3-PRE world June 26th, I converted the 700-odd packages originally > installed from the 9.2-R dvd1_memstick, plus a handful subsequently, to > pkgng three days ago. That seemed to go smoothly, and didn't take long. > > So today I ran 'pkg update' to sync it up, then 'pkg upgrade' to upgrade > all packages. That was almost 4 hrs ago and ever since I've watched it > fetch 657 packages to /var/cache/pkg/All, one about every 16-17 seconds, > doing apparently nothing meanwhile. > > I'm getting 3-400KB/s on small packages, taking one or two seconds each, > and 5-700KB/s on larger ones. Then it sits, top showing pkg in kqwait > for around 15-17 seconds, gkrellm the busiest thing running at 2-3%, few > percent for Xorg, KDE etc - basically idle - until (what looks like) a > sleep expires, pkg springs into action for maybe a second doing the next > fetch, then it goes back to sleep. Why would this be? > > During that ~4 hours the sqlite db was locked, I couldn't 'pkg info' to > see where it was up to, or 'pkg which' to hunt down a lost link related > to an earlier unsuccessful 'portmaster --packages www/firefox' run which > may have screwed things up, after which I thought upgrading all packages > the best idea, and certainly worth a try to gain confidence with pkg :) > > But no; after fetching ~900MB to cache, it spewed a large number (eg): > > pkg: WARNING: locally installed docbook-5.0_1 conflicts on > /usr/local/share/xml/docbook/5.0/xsd/xml.xsd with: - docbook-xml-5.0_2 > > After that, the last 'pkg: WARNING:' line above .. nothing. Not a word. > Just the prompt. Too many errors? No apparent changes to any pkgs nor > the database, though the earlier portmaster shows some installed. > > That was the last of > 2000 lines of these msgs, for installed packages > qt4-*-4.84, perl5.14-5.14.4_7 and docbook-5.0_1 mostly, but I lost lots > off the top; python27-2.7.6_4 came up too. I suspect portmaster earlier > managed to update these, but not register them? > > Ah yes, later, perhaps I see; I should have upgraded portmaster before > using it, the older one was doing an all-source upgrade :( And likely > trying to register upgrades using the old package_tools too .. there > still be a few dragons afoot .. > > Later; I ran a second 'pkg upgrade' inside script(1), so if anyone might > benefit from seeing a 170KB list of conflicts, just ask. > > So what should I do now, short of starting from scratch? > > cheers, Ian (please cc me) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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