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INDEX file exists, and the periodic script produces output like this: $ /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg Check for out of date packages: $ That is, apparently everything is up to date, so I don't have to do anything.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it to use /nonexistent in place of the INDEX file, I get this output: $ /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg Check for out of date packages: netpbm-manpages-10.35.85 was orphaned: LOCAL/netpbm-manpages pkg-config-0.25_1 was orphaned: devel/pkg-config $ A-ha!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 Also, the INDEX file could be outdated, which might lead to wrong results, so using the INDEX file by default is probably not a good idea anyway.
On the other hand - we are using daily `portsnap -I update` so we have updated INDEX on all our machines, but outdated ports tree.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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
