On 28 Aug 2012 10:15, "Stefan Esser" <s...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am 27.08.2012 23:23, schrieb Baptiste Daroussin: > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:22:27PM +0200, olli hauer wrote: > > Please do not hijack this thread, even if you are also reporting a > problem with PKG_NG. Threads are free and nobody bothered to reply > to the more urgent problem of the failed deinstallation. > > >> On 2012-08-27 20:03, Stefan Esser wrote: > >>> PKG_NG seems to have introduced a limit on the size of ports > >>> that can be deinstalled: > >>> > >>> # cd /usr/ports/math/lapack # make deinstall ===> > >>> Deinstalling for math/lapack ===> Deinstalling > >>> lapack-3.4.0_2 The following packages will be deinstalled: > >>> > >>> lapack-3.4.0_2 > >>> > >>> The deinstallation will free 28 MB Deinstalling > >>> lapack-3.4.0_2...lapack-3.4.0_2 is required by: qrupdate-1.1.1, > >>> deleting anyway pkg: Cannot run script(DEINSTALL): Argument > >>> list too long *** [deinstall] Error code 3 > > I have located the line that is causing this error. It is the > posix_spawn on line 102 of libpkg/script.c. The argument length > is limited to KERN_ARGMAX (sysctl kern.argmax) which seems to > be a R/O value initialized to 256KB. > > AFAICT this is not even a loader tuneable. A new kernel must > be built, or pkg must be modified to honor the argument length > limit. > > The argument is the string argument of "sh -c <string>", which > can not be split in the general case. > > In the specific case of math/lapack, the arguments to execve() > (called by posix_spawn()) are: > > argv[0] = "sh" > argv[1] = "-c" > argv[2] = " set -- lapack-3.4.0_2 > rm -f /usr/local/man/cat3/INSTALL_ilaver.f.3.gz ... > /usr/local/man/cat3/zupmtr.f.3.gz.bz2" > > The argument list must be broken into pieces of less than 256KB, > since rising KERN_ARGMAX to >330KB will lead to the same problem > with the next port with even longer PLIST.
Any reason we can't split it? Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
