Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 12:48:51 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" <sean-freebsd@farley.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Uggg! Message-ID: <20070602123226.X4627@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <20070601.131415.74663752.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20070601083345.GA48323@rot13.obsecurity.org> <10723ADA-FD53-45F8-BDFA-DBD98CBC212E@FreeBSD.org> <20070601170514.GA54912@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20070601.131415.74663752.imp@bsdimp.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Warner Losh wrote: >> Best solution is to back up /var/db/pkg if it is in danger of >> deletion by a wanton admin :) > > The ONLY data corruption that I saw when my laptop died was *ALL* of > the +CONTENTS files going away. It seems to have died during the > updating of the meta-data for the dvdauthor port. Why all the files > of unreleated packages would disapper is a mystery to me, unless > mergemaster, or one of the pkg tools, deleted them all, and then > wanted to rewrite them and I got screwed between these two steps. > > Wouldn't it be better of a +CONTENTS~ file were left in place during > this process and have that be removed afterwards? The following is not a plug for my code since I only have it in maintenance mode. I use Port Conductor[1], which I started writing a long time ago when Perl was in the base. It makes a copy of /var/db/pkg before preceding with an update. This is between helping the wanton admin and protecting against a bug in the program. The one thing I like about how I wrote it was how it tracks every step along the update, so it is possible to continue if something happens (i.e., battery dies). I never got around to polishing it, so it is not necessarily the most user friendly. It tries to emulate a lot of portupgrade, but some things are missing. Not all options behave the same way as portupgrade. Recursive port updates (-R and -r) update ports even if the version has not changed. One notable feature: dead-port detection. When a port has its last dependency removed, it is reported in the output. Everyone is welcome to take ideas from it to add to their respective port updating projects. Someday, I plan to use a different tool for my port updating. When I have some free time, I will probably look at portmaster. Sean 1. http://www.farley.org/?page=software#pc -- sean-freebsd@farley.org
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070602123226.X4627>