NetBSD Problem Report #51465

From he@smistad.uninett.no  Fri Sep  9 11:45:24 2016
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From: he@NetBSD.org
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Subject: "pkgin: empty non-autoremovable package list" error message unhelpful
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>Number:         51465
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       "pkgin: empty non-autoremovable package list" error message unhelpful
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    jperkin
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 09 11:50:00 +0000 2016
>Closed-Date:    Tue Sep 05 05:55:13 +0000 2023
>Last-Modified:  Tue Sep 05 05:55:13 +0000 2023
>Originator:     he@NetBSD.org
>Release:        NetBSD 6.1
>Organization:
	None
>Environment:
System: NetBSD stats3..... 6.1_STABLE NetBSD 6.1_STABLE (SD_VMT_TWEAK) #0: Mon Aug 22 17:31:39 CEST 2016  root@stats......:/b/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/SD_VMT_TWEAK i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

	I'm using "pkgin" and binary packages for upgrade.

	It appears that in certain situations when doing "pkgin
	full-upgrade", pkgin can end up emitting this error message:

	pkgin: empty non-autoremovable package list

	For a naive system administrator this message may appear quite
	meaningless, and it gives no hint as to what might be the
	actual root cause of this problem -- whether it's a particular
	package which is installed (which one?) which causes the
	problem or ...

	As it turns out, this problem appears to be fixable with
	either "pkg_admin rebuild" and/or "pkg_admin rebuild-tree",
	ref.:

stats3# pkgin up
processing remote summary (http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/6.1/All)...
pkg_summary.bz2                     100% 2006KB 200.6KB/s  22.1KB/s   00:10    
stats3# pkgin fug
pkgin: empty non-autoremovable package list
stats3# pkg_admin rebuild

Stored 37911 files and 9 explicit directories from 227 packages in /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.byfile.db.
Done.
stats3# pkg_admin rebuild-tree
Done.
stats3# pkgin fug
reading local summary...
processing local summary...
calculating dependencies... done.

6 packages to be upgraded:

php56-gd-5.6.24 php56-bcmath-5.6.24 ap24-php56-5.6.24 python27-2.7.11nb2 php-5.6.24 apache-2.4.23

6 packages to be installed (31M to download, 577K to install):

python27-2.7.12 php-5.6.25 apache-2.4.23nb2 php56-gd-5.6.25 php56-bcmath-5.6.25 ap24-php56-5.6.25

proceed ? [Y/n] y
downloading packages...
...

	However, there is nothing in the error message which suggests
	this might be the problem.  The error message is therefore
	... unhelpful and should most probably be improved.

>How-To-Repeat:
	See above.

	I'm not entirely certain what brought me into this situation;
	it's conceivable it's a consequence of an earlier "pkgin fug".

>Fix:
	Improve error message, hint at dependency database rebuild?

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

Responsible-Changed-From-To: pkg-manager->imil
Responsible-Changed-By: wiz@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:30:52 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
Over to maintainer


Responsible-Changed-From-To: imil->pkg-manager
Responsible-Changed-By: wiz@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:34:47 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
imil observes


Responsible-Changed-From-To: pkg-manager->jperkin
Responsible-Changed-By: jperkin@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:32:28 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
I'll take this.


From: "Jonathan Perkin" <jperkin@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/51465 CVS commit: pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgin
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:19:55 +0000

 Module Name:	pkgsrc
 Committed By:	jperkin
 Date:		Wed Aug 16 17:19:55 UTC 2023

 Modified Files:
 	pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgin: Makefile distinfo

 Log Message:
 pkgin: Update to 23.8.0.

 ## Version 23.8.0 (2023-08-16)

 This is the biggest overhaul of pkgin yet!  As well as fixing many bugs, pkgin
 23.8.0 runs "pkgin -n upgrade" over 2,000x faster on a test system with 12,663
 packages installed compared to 22.10.0 (1.4 seconds vs over 54 minutes).

  * Large overhaul of dependency resolution code, fixing many upgrade issues,
    providing significant performance improvements, and improving code and
    logic readability.

  * Add support for SUPERSEDES.

  * Fix install and removal ordering.

  * Improve and fix handling of "keep" packages, using "pkg_add -A" to
    correctly install automatic packages rather than applying keep or unkeep
    flags afterwards.

  * Output improvements, sorting packages alphabetically and providing a
    simple progress counter.  Fix unwanted output that could end up mixed
    with package paths in "pkgin export".

  * Correct handling of +REQUIRED_BY for reverse dependencies, fixing
    DEPENDS that use alternate matches.

  * Many internal code improvements, memory leaks plugged, and compiler
    warnings eradicated.

 Fixes at least the following issues:

  * NetBSDfr/pkgin#10
  * NetBSDfr/pkgin#44
  * NetBSDfr/pkgin#79
  * NetBSDfr/pkgin#95
  * NetBSDfr/pkgin#97
  * NetBSDfr/pkgin#110
  * NetBSDfr/pkgin#113
  * NetBSDfr/pkgin#128
  * NetBSD PR#51465
  * NetBSD PR#56683


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.124 -r1.125 pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgin/Makefile
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.77 -r1.78 pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgin/distinfo

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: jperkin@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 05:55:13 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Should be fixed in 23.8.0.


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