weird problems with porupgrade

Sat Apr 15 17:33:16 UTC 2006

Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
> hi everybody!
> since some time now i am developing kports an advanced kde frontend for the freebsd-ports and in future also pkgsrc and openbsd ports.
> since the last release last summer i have gone through a complete rewrite and right now am at the point where i monitor portupgrades output and am having severe problems with portupgrade's behaviour.
> the problem is: depending on certain conditions portupgrade doesnt show a big part of the output. these conditions are:
> the application is started as a subprocess of another application, e.g. kdevelop and/or i use kprocess/qprocess to run the portupgrade command.

Could it be you are seeing the differences between stdout and stderr?

> 
> if i run the applicaiton on its own and use popen() and pipes to access the output it works.
> 
> this might make it appear to be a problem of the kprocess implementation, however i am pretty sure it is not. i have run the command with "| tee logfile" and the logfile also only has part of the output. this whole problem has been discussed @ http://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php?p=119650 (in german), so if you speak german you could check that out. an example of the problem:
> 
> i run the command "portupgrade -v -y -N -PP games/angband" without root previliges (this way the process is over pretty quickly). if run from inside a unix system pipe (file descriptor opened with popen and read with fgets) the output looks like this:
> 
> ->  Session started at: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:46:10 +0000
> --->  Fresh installation of games/angband started at: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:46:17 +0000
> --->  Checking for the latest package of 'games/angband'
> --->  Fetching the package(s) for 'angband-3.0.6' (games/angband)
> --->  Fetching angband-3.0.6
> ++ Will try the following sites in the order named:
>         ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/
> --->  Invoking a command: curl ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/angband-3.0.6.tbz -o /var/tmp/portupgradeURBFUqpc/angband-3.0.6.tbz
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 
>   0  579k    0  1404    0     0   1423      0  0:06:57 --:--:--  0:06:57  1423
>  20  579k   20  120k    0     0  75560      0  0:00:07  0:00:01  0:00:06  183k
>  59  579k   59  344k    0     0   130k      0  0:00:04  0:00:02  0:00:02  207k
>  96  579k   96  559k    0     0   153k      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:--  210k
> 100  579k  100  579k    0     0   151k      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:--  204k
> --->  Downloaded as angband-3.0.6.tbz
> --->  Identifying the package /var/tmp/portupgradeURBFUqpc/angband-3.0.6.tbz
> ** Failed to save the dowloaded tarball as /usr/ports/packages/All/angband-3.0.6.tbz
> --->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>         ! angband-3.0.6 (Permission denied - /usr/ports/packages/All/angband-3.0.6.tbz)
> --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
> ** Could not clean up temporary directory: Directory not empty - /var/tmp/portupgradeURBFUqpc
> --->  Fetching the latest package(s) for 'angband' (games/angband)
> --->  Fetching angband
> ++ Will try the following sites in the order named:
>         ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/
> --->  Invoking a command: curl ftp://ftp.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/angband.tbz -o /var/tmp/portupgrade7LnEZ0Si/angband.tbz
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
> 
>   0  579k    0  1404    0     0   1451      0  0:06:49 --:--:--  0:06:49  1451
>   9  579k    9 56160    0     0  39568      0  0:00:15  0:00:01  0:00:14  118k
>  25  579k   25  147k    0     0  62424      0  0:00:09  0:00:02  0:00:07  100k
>  55  579k   55  322k    0     0  95434      0  0:00:06  0:00:03  0:00:03  128k
>  80  579k   80  464k    0     0   105k      0  0:00:05  0:00:04  0:00:01  134k
> 100  579k  100  579k    0     0   110k      0  0:00:05  0:00:05 --:--:--  135k
> --->  Downloaded as angband.tbz
> --->  Identifying the package /var/tmp/portupgrade7LnEZ0Si/angband.tbz
> ** Failed to save the dowloaded tarball as /usr/ports/packages/All/angband-3.0.6.tbz
> --->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>         ! angband@      (Permission denied - /usr/ports/packages/All/angband-3.0.6.tbz)
> --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
> ** Could not clean up temporary directory: Directory not empty - /var/tmp/portupgrade7LnEZ0Si
> --->  Fresh installation of games/angband ended at: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:46:31 +0000 (consumed 00:00:13)
> --->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>         ! games/angband (package not found)
> --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
> --->  Session ended at: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 10:46:31 +0000 (consumed 00:00:20)
> 
> however the same code, run as a subprocess of kdevelop misses the code colored in red.  
> i have also checked the environemnt inside those process and tried encapsulating the command in "sh -c" without any results...
> 
> now am out of ideas....
> 
> thanks for any help
> 
> hannes
> 
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Regards,
Eric