From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 15:08:05 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 B2D07106564A; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E038FC1A; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id RAA05380; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:08:02 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <496F5151.7040703@icyb.net.ua> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:08:01 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081124) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wesley Shields References: <496F360E.1000508@icyb.net.ua> <28283d910901150529xfac5a13k6f81d199ee2f48d@mail.gmail.com> <496F3AB4.20202@icyb.net.ua> <20090115150602.GF50694@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <20090115150602.GF50694@atarininja.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 15:08:06 -0000 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 >> > 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. 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