Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:53:26 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg (aka pkgng) 1.0 released Message-ID: <503F9A86.7000302@shatow.net> In-Reply-To: <D6DABAC3-7C3F-44E4-9DB4-C03824602FAC@jnielsen.net> References: <20120830141939.GJ64447@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <D6DABAC3-7C3F-44E4-9DB4-C03824602FAC@jnielsen.net>
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On 8/30/2012 10:43 AM, John Nielsen wrote: > Thanks to everyone involved. > > I've been lightly testing pkg for a little while, but I still mainly use ports. This announcement prompted me to switch from portupgrade to portupgrade-devel (20120827 version) to see how it works with PKGNG. I encountered a couple issues: > > Portupgrade doesn't remove the pkgdb.db.lock reliably. > Portupgrade doesn't handle stale lock files (just waits indefinitely for a nonexistent process to finish). A big problem when combined with the above. > Running "portupgrade pkg" failed. It stalled trying to unregister the package installation after the old pkg was removed. I didn't dig too deeply but it seems like a dependency chicken-and-egg problem. > > I was able to reinstall using /usr/sbin/pkg, and I also tested "make && make deinstall && make reinstall" of ports-mgmt/pkg successfully, so it may just be a portupgrade issue. > Thank you. I'll add some sort of check to prevent this. > JN > Bryan (portupgrade maintainer)
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