From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 15:04:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD1A1065716 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:04:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63DC8FC23 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:04:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2B1185C2D; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:06:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:06:02 -0500 From: Wesley Shields To: Andriy Gapon Message-ID: <20090115150602.GF50694@atarininja.org> References: <496F360E.1000508@icyb.net.ua> <28283d910901150529xfac5a13k6f81d199ee2f48d@mail.gmail.com> <496F3AB4.20202@icyb.net.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <496F3AB4.20202@icyb.net.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: matt donovan , kde@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: pkg_info confusion (and configure.kde3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:04:48 -0000 On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:31:32PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 15/01/2009 15:29 matt donovan said the following: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Andriy Gapon > > wrote: > > > > > > I am reading pkg_info(1), I see that pkg_info can be executed without > > any options/arguments, but the man page doesn't tell what happens in > > this case. > > > > In practice I see that configure.kde3 executes pkg_info in the above > > fashion (after printing "Looking for installed modules.") and what I > > observe is that pkg_info is examining all package files found in > > /var/packages. This takes quite long, obviously: > > > > > > 0 61827 28318 0 8 0 5992 2892 wait S+J p5 0:00.12 > > /usr/sbin/pkg_info > > 0 62162 61827 0 8 0 3492 1108 wait S+J p5 0:00.00 sh > > -c /usr/bin/tar -xp -j -f '/var/packages/All/curl-7.18.0.tbz' '+*' > > > > I am not sure if this is default behavior of pkg_info or it is somehow > > affected by environment. I run portupgrade -p and also have PACKAGES set > > to /var/packages. > > > > -- > > Andriy Gapon > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing > > list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > > " > > > > > > pkg_info run without args is the default way to run pkg_info it just > > prints out all packages/ports installed > > Ok, but what did make it peek into the package files (as shown in ps axl > output above)? The output looks like this: zsh-4.3.9_4 The Z shell The second field comes from the +COMMENT file that lives in /var/db/pkg/foo. -- WXS