Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:32:37 GMT From: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/172651: portmaster --index and --index-only redundancy and processing error Message-ID: <201210122032.q9CKWbll093977@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201210122040.q9CKe0Us049161@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 172651
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: portmaster --index and --index-only redundancy and processing error
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 12 20:40:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: jb
>Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RC2 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0 r241133: Tue Oct 2 17:11:45 UTC 2012 root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
It seems that there is a redundancy on two levels:
1. between these two options
--index
use INDEX-[7-9] exclusively to check if a port is up to date
--index-only
do not try to use /usr/ports. For updating ports when no
/usr/ports directory is present the -PP|--packages-only option is
required. See the ENVIRONMENT section below for additional
requirements.
# ls /usr/ports/
..
INDEX-7
INDEX-8
INDEX-9
INDEX-9.bz2
..
#
# portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
===>>> New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
===>>> 618 total installed ports
===>>> 1 has a new version available
# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
===>>> New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
===>>> 618 total installed ports
===>>> 1 has a new version available
#
# mv /usr/ports /usr/ports-saved
# portmaster -L --index-only | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
/tmp/d-85964-index/INDEX-9.bz2 100% of 1619 kB 185 kBps
===>>> New version available: smartmontools-5.43_1
===>>> 618 total installed ports
===>>> 1 has a new version available
# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
/tmp/d-87852-index/INDEX-9.bz2 100% of 1619 kB 125 kBps
00m00s Terminated #
Note: - the second entry outcome (with --index option) looks like a bug to
me.
- the second entry - notice the downloading action (I will come back
to it).
I repeated the procedure once again, with the same behavior and results,
except this for the second entry:
# portmaster -L --index | egrep '(ew|ort) version|total install'
Terminated
Note: - the second entry - notice the LACK OF downloading action,
which could indicate some kind of instability in 'portmaster'
Conclusion:
The --index-only option seems to be redundant in both cases (there is
the same behavior to attempt to process INDEX files).
2. between --index-only option and -PP|--packages-only option
Conclusion:
The -PP|--packages-only option implies "index only" entry behavior, so
there is redundancy here as well.
Summary conclusion:
I can not see where this --index-only option really matters ?
The --index option seems to be enough to indicate to process INDEX files only
(regardless of /usr/ports being present or not)
and
the -PP|--packages-only option or similar package processing options clearly
give the entry a context of "index only", that is, to process INDEX files only (regardless of /usr/ports being present or not).
jb
>How-To-Repeat:
as above
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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