Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:08:01 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com>, kde@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: pkg_info confusion (and configure.kde3) Message-ID: <496F5151.7040703@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20090115150602.GF50694@atarininja.org> References: <496F360E.1000508@icyb.net.ua> <28283d910901150529xfac5a13k6f81d199ee2f48d@mail.gmail.com> <496F3AB4.20202@icyb.net.ua> <20090115150602.GF50694@atarininja.org>
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on 15/01/2009 17:06 Wesley Shields said the following: > 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 <avg@icyb.net.ua >>> <mailto:avg@icyb.net.ua>> 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 <mailto: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 >>> <mailto: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. Thanks, but my question was: > sh -c /usr/bin/tar -xp -j -f '/var/packages/All/curl-7.18.0.tbz' '+*' why this command (and such for every package in /var/packages/All) was spawned by pkg_info? I.e. why pkg_info looks into package .tbz files instead of examining /var/db/pkg? -- Andriy Gapon
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