Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:06:02 -0500 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com>, kde@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg_info confusion (and configure.kde3) Message-ID: <20090115150602.GF50694@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <496F3AB4.20202@icyb.net.ua> References: <496F360E.1000508@icyb.net.ua> <28283d910901150529xfac5a13k6f81d199ee2f48d@mail.gmail.com> <496F3AB4.20202@icyb.net.ua>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:31:32PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 15/01/2009 15:29 matt donovan said the following: > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua > > <mailto:avg@icyb.net.ua>> wrote: > > > > > > I am reading pkg_info(1), I see that pkg_info can be executed without > > any options/arguments, but the man page doesn't tell what happens in > > this case. > > > > In practice I see that configure.kde3 executes pkg_info in the above > > fashion (after printing "Looking for installed modules.") and what I > > observe is that pkg_info is examining all package files found in > > /var/packages. This takes quite long, obviously: > > > > > > 0 61827 28318 0 8 0 5992 2892 wait S+J p5 0:00.12 > > /usr/sbin/pkg_info > > 0 62162 61827 0 8 0 3492 1108 wait S+J p5 0:00.00 sh > > -c /usr/bin/tar -xp -j -f '/var/packages/All/curl-7.18.0.tbz' '+*' > > > > I am not sure if this is default behavior of pkg_info or it is somehow > > affected by environment. I run portupgrade -p and also have PACKAGES set > > to /var/packages. > > > > -- > > Andriy Gapon > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> mailing > > list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > > <mailto:freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > > > > > > pkg_info run without args is the default way to run pkg_info it just > > prints out all packages/ports installed > > Ok, but what did make it peek into the package files (as shown in ps axl > output above)? The output looks like this: zsh-4.3.9_4 The Z shell The second field comes from the +COMMENT file that lives in /var/db/pkg/foo. -- WXS
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