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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:37:58 +0100
From:      Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   ports/176925: ports-mgmt/pkg: pkg version fails if cwd no longer exists 
Message-ID:  <E1UFj4I-000EdL-4h@apollo.emma.line.org>
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>Number:         176925
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       ports-mgmt/pkg: pkg version fails if cwd no longer exists
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 13 20:40:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Matthias Andree
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
FreeBSD ports 
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD apollo.emma.line.org 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #2 r244869: Sun Dec 30 22:05:16 CET 2012 toor@apollo.emma.line.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64


	
>Description:
Greetings,

pkg version appears to have difficulties determining the up-to-date
state of its ports if the current working directory has been removed.

Now, this may belong in the "if it hurts, then why do you do it"
category but I thought to report it nonetheless.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
cd /tmp
mkdir foo
cd foo
rmdir ../foo
pkg version

This emits lots of port names with a question mark as status, as in:
pkg version 
apr-1.4.6.1.4.1_3                  ?
asciidoc-8.6.8_1                   ?
autoconf-2.69                      ?
...

whereas, after a cd /tmp, pkg version would show this instead:
apr-1.4.6.1.4.1_3                  =
asciidoc-8.6.8_1                   =
autoconf-2.69                      =
...
	
>Fix:
If the current working directory must exist for pkg options, the pkg
program should arguably enforce that, and either report a pertinent
error, or perhaps just "chdir("/") to sidestep the issue.

	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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