From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 6 20:01:31 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3012016A419 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:01:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp8.server.rpi.edu (smtp8.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6D113C47E for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:01:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp8.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l76Ii1Xk023591; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:44:02 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200708060655.l766tYah055101@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> References: <200708060655.l766tYah055101@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:44:00 -0400 To: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam scanning disabled X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.228 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:01:31 -0000 At 2:55 AM -0400 8/6/07, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > Ok. But I part of my question to people , and reason for >posting it here, is the old "Is anyone else seeing this". When/if >you use portupgrade, does it do the same for you? Or is it just >something that I happened some how to inherit on at least 2 of >my machines? I've noticed it, but I've also noticed that it does not happen every time. I had one case were I did a portupgrade of a specific set of components, and later I noticed that all the directories under /var/db/pkg had been modified. I did a 'portupgrade -f' of the exact same components, and this time the only directories which changed were the ones which were upgraded. While the behavior seems odd, it has not caused any problems for me, so I haven't done much investigation of it. (the above paragraph describes almost all of the investigation that I have done...) Warner Losh also stumbled into this, in a recent case where he ended up losing all subdirectories of /var/db/pkg due to a system crash during a portupgrade. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA