Problems with pkgng (pkg upgrade)

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 08:57:49AM -0400, Adam McDougall wrote:
> On 09/09/13 08:31, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I'm wondering why the chrome process has the habit of crashing when I do
> > "pkg upgrade" (last time, it was a signal 11).
> > 
> > I certainly expect something like this during a "pkg upgrade" that
> > involves "chromium" package itself, but this also happens with updating
> > something totally unrelated, such as when "pkg upgrade" only upgrades
> > "pkg" (in the first run); or maybe upgrading "nano", or stuff like that.
> > 
> > Is it expected?
> > Is it only me?
> > In that case, I can probably help with debug.
> > 
> 
> It is not only you, it happens on pretty much all my installs.  It can
> happen even if you pkg install something small and unrelated to
> chromium.  Last week I was shocked when I ran pkg upgrade and it did NOT
> cause chromium to crash; it had even replaced chromium itself!  I don't
> think it crashes 100% of the time, but most.  I don't have time to debug
> it.  Just in case it got fixed, be sure to test using the latest
> chromium version from ports.
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That is because pkgng overwrite the binaries during an upgrade instead of first
unlinking them then extract the new one.

This is planned to be fixed soon.

regards,
Bapt
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