Re: [Pkgutil-users] pkgutil package install/available mismatch

[Rob R. <rr...@fa...>]

Hi Peter,
	After doing more testing with pkgutil as a package provider for puppet,
I've discovered that using the true package name to call packages works
just fine. Although, I have noticed that manifests referencing many
packages does take considerably longer to process compared to pkg-get.

Rob Ruma
Harvard University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
UNIX IT Systems

Rob Ruma wrote:
> Peter,
> 	Thanks for the quick response. I didn't look at the code before I sent
> my last email so I should of mentioned that I have noncsw set to true in
> pkgutil.conf so the if statement in "sub compare" uses the full output
> of `pkginfo` for the array.
> 
> I discovered this issue while using pkgutil as a package provider for
> puppet so if I don't call packages as they are exactly named in the
> repo, the package reference fails and reinstalls the package continuously.
> 
> Here is an example of another package that doesn't report correctly:
> 
> system      CSWgfile                         fileutils - GNU file utilities
> 
> It will be useful if a new option to pkgutil is created to do more exact
> compares between the repo and whats installed.
> 
> Again, thanks for the response, please keep up the great work on this
> project!
> 
> Rob Ruma
> Harvard University
> Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
> UNIX IT Systems
> 
> Peter Bonivart wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Rob Ruma<rr...@fa...> wrote:
>>> This could be a possible bug. pkgutil doesn't report if a package is
>>> installed if the name of the CSW package doesn't match what it goes by
>>> from the repo.
>> Since both compare options (c/C) list package names and not catalog
>> names, that is what you should provide on the command line. Think of
>> it as piping to grep.
>>
>>> [root@sun]# pkgutil -c pkg_update_watch
>>> package                   installed                 catalog
>> This would have worked if you had specified pkgupdatewatch.
>>
>>> [root@sun]# pkgutil -C pkg_update_watch
>>> package                   installed                 catalog
>> Even if this matched it would only have shown something if installed
>> version didn't match catalog version.
>>
>>> [root@sun]# pkgutil -a pkg_update_watch
>>> pkg_update_watch     CSWpkgupdatewatch    1.0,REV=2007.04.10
>>> 4.0 KB
>> Here it works using catalog name since output contains both package
>> and catalog names. Again, think of it as a grep.
>>
>> Actually, all internal work in pkgutil is done with package names.
>> When you, for example, use catalog names to install something a lookup
>> has to be done for every one so you lose a few milliseconds. :-) For
>> this to work I guess I would have to do lookups here as well. Do you
>> think that would be better?
>>
>> I could try to fix that if you want it.
>>
>