Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:05:56 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change default for periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg ? Message-ID: <501259F4.7050908@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <201207270832.q6R8WU7i040568@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <201207270832.q6R8WU7i040568@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, the periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg script uses > the ports' INDEX file if it exists. On my machines, the > INDEX file exists, and the periodic script produces output > like this: > > $ /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg > > Check for out of date packages: > $ > > That is, apparently everything is up to date, so I don't > have to do anything. But this is wrong. When I change it > to use /nonexistent in place of the INDEX file, I get this > output: > > $ /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg > > Check for out of date packages: > netpbm-manpages-10.35.85 was orphaned: LOCAL/netpbm-manpages > pkg-config-0.25_1 was orphaned: devel/pkg-config > $ > > A-ha! The first line is to be expected (netpbm-manpages > is a "fake" port that I maintain locally), but the second > line about pkg-config is much more important. Now this > makes me look at ports/UPDATING, revealing that pkg-config > was replaced by pkgconf. > > Therefore I propose to change the default for the periodic > script to use /nonexistent. It does not change the output > that usually appears, it only produces _additional_ output > for installed packages whose origin disappeared. This is > valuable information, I think. Also, the INDEX file could > be outdated, which might lead to wrong results, so using > the INDEX file by default is probably not a good idea anyway. On the other hand - we are using daily `portsnap -I update` so we have updated INDEX on all our machines, but outdated ports tree. (freezed in some point in time, so we can have same versions installed on all servers in a group) I think it should be user configurable in /etc/periodic.conf if somebody want to use INDEX or not. Or the hack with /nonexistent should be mentioned in a comment in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf and in a manpage. Miroslav Lachman
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