https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259785
--- Comment #5 from Mark Johnston <ma...@freebsd.org> --- (In reply to Gleb Popov from comment #4) > Anyways, I don't know much about pkgbase, why do pkgbase packages have > post-install scripts at all? Look at e.g., release/packages/certctl.ucl. > Hmm, pkg performs that splitting because it has to. We can't just disable it, > otherwise there would be no splits at all. If a file belonging to one > packages is moved to an another on during the upgrade, but the dependence is > the other way around, we have to split and it can't be avoided. Or am I > missing something? Splitting is necessary sometimes, but pkg has control over which package's upgrades are split. Suppose a file moves from package A-1.0 to B-1.0, and both packages are currently installed. Then, when upgrading to 2.0, we cannot have A-1.0 and B-1.0 installed simultaneously. What does pkg do here? It could: 1. upgrade A-1.0->A-2.0, then upgrade B-1.0->B-2.0, 2. uninstall A-1.0, upgrade B-1.0->B-2.0, install A-2.0 3. uninstall B-1.0, upgrade A-1.0->A-2.0, install B-2.0 Which one does it do in practice? Does it ever split upgrades unnecessarily? And, when a split is necessary, the solver should try to ensure that the install job is scheduled as early as possible. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
