On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 11:11 Morgan Aldridge <morg...@makkintosshu.com> wrote:
> Hi misc@ and Marc, > > I have a script for applying all updates/upgrades for upgrading my OpenBSD > workstation, dev machines, and servers. I'm currently in the process of > improving it to better support downloading pending updates in advance of > actual review and installation (see < > https://github.com/morgant/swupdate-openbsd/issues/14>. I've been > studying the pkg_add(1) manual, testing, and also reviewing the pkg_add > Perl source in src/usr.sbin/pkg_add/OpenBSD/, but while really well > structured and easy to read, the latter does take me longer to grok than > the former. > > I'm hoping you have a quick answer (even if it's 'no') to the following > question: Does `pkg_add -u` utilize PKG_CACHE other than with the `-n` > option? > > In my testing (on amd64/7.3-stable), the following will check for updates > and copy packages to `PKG_CACHE`, as described in pkg_add(1): > > PKG_CACHE=/home/_swupdate/7.3/packages/amd64 pkg_add -nu > > If I delete a cached package from the PKG_CACHE directory, re-executing > the above command will redownload the package. That's what I was hoping > for. I'm not quite sure whether some of the packages are being > re-downloaded by just looking at file modification dates (unfortunately, > `-vvvvv` doesn't note downloads, nor cache mis/hit.) > > The following seems to try to update packages from PKG_CACHE, if passed in > as PKG_PATH, but -- understandably -- does result in errors that some > packages (those that didn't need updates or have dependencies that did) > could not be found: > > PKG_PATH=/home/_swupdate/7.3/packages/amd64 pkg_add -u > > Naturally, if I append ':installpath' to the above PKG_PATH, it will not > give such errors: > > PKG_PATH=/home/_swupdate/7.3/packages/amd64:installpath pkg_add -u > > However, since '-vvvvv' also doesn't note which package repository (esp. > local or not) a package was processed from, I don't know whether it's > actually preferring the local repository. > > Additionally, if I set both PKG_CACHE and PKG_PATH to `pkg_add -u`, it > doesn't appear that packages are downloaded to PKG_CACHE: > > PKG_CACHE=/home/_swupdate/7.3/packages/amd64 > /home/_swupdate/7.3/packages/amd64 > pkg_add -u > Typo. The above command should have been: PKG_CACHE=/home/_swupdate/7.3/packages/amd64 \ PKG_PATH=/home/_swupdate/7.3/packages/amd64 \ pkg_add -u This is confirmed by deleting a package from PKG_CACHE and re-executing the > above, after which the deleted package is still missing from PKG_CACHE. Of > course, this absolutely feels sketchy to be caching to a package > repository, but was worth a try. > Thanks in advance and please CC me if replying to the list as I'm not subscribed to misc@. Morgan > -- Morgan --- http://makkintosshu.com/ https://centresteer.com/ https://tobuji.tech/ http://unna.org/
