On 18/07/2013 13:42, Paul Mather wrote:
> I am using pkgng 1.1.4_1 on RELENG_9 (r252725), operating on a local repo I
> maintain using poudriere 3.0.4.
>
> Recently, I wanted to upgrade all packages on a client except two whose
> update I want to defer for now as they potentially impact locally-developed
> applications. I figured I would use the pkgng "lock" functionality on those
> two packages (apache-solr and py27-Jinja2) to prevent them from being
> updated. I ran "pkg upgrade" on the client and, as expected, the locked
> packages weren't upgraded. However, I was surprised to see that packages
> upon which the locked packages depended were upgraded. Unless I'm
> misunderstanding something, the man page for pkg-lock states this should not
> happen:
>
> =====
> The impact of locking a package is wider than simply preventing modifica-
> tions to the package itself. Any operation implying modification of the
> locked package will be blocked. This includes:
> [[...]]
> o Deletion, up- or downgrade of any package the locked package depends
> upon, either directly or as a consequence of installing or upgrading
> some third package.
> =====
>
> In my case, the following dependencies of apache-solr were updated, even
> though apache-solr is locked: java-zoneinfo: 2013.c -> 2013.d; libXi:
> 1.7.1_1,1 -> 1.7.2,1; libXrender: 0.9.7_1 -> 0.9.8; and openjdk: 7.21.11 ->
> 7.25.15. In the case of the locked py27-Jinja2, these dependencies were
> updated: gettext: 0.18.1.1_1 -> 0.18.3; and py27-MarkupSafe: 0.15 -> 0.18.
> Dependency information in the two locked packages was updated to reflect
> these new, upgraded dependencies.
>
> Is this a bug, or am I misreading the man page?
That's a bug, definitely. The way the man page describes the effect of
locking is what should happen -- nothing a locked package depends on
should be modified by pkg without some extra input from the
administrator to allow the change to happen.
Cheers,
Matthew
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