pkg reports certain errors, which scroll past, but does not provide an indication when it exits that errors occurred. The other day, I ran a pkg install which included nspluginwrapper. Apparently I should have first run kldload linux before running pkg install nspluginwrapper, but I didn't. I happened to be capturing the output of the session under script(1), but the only reason I knew anything was amiss was that I happened to glance at the screen at the right time. I got errors like: [132/681] Installing linux_base-c6-6.6_3... sysctl: unknown oid 'compat.linux.osrelease': No such file or directory linuxulator is not (kld)loaded, exiting pkg: PRE-INSTALL script failed Extracting linux_base-c6-6.6_3: 100% +++ Some programs may need linprocfs, please add it to /etc/fstab! +++ Running linux ldconfig... ELF binary type "3" not known. /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: Exec format error Extracting linux-c6-expat-2.0.1_1: 100% ELF binary type "3" not known. /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: Exec format error pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed and so forth. So all these pre-install and post-install scripts are failing. I assume this means the package isn't properly installed or configured. But: # pkg install linux_base-c6 Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) The most recent version of packages are already installed I believe that, when pkg exits, it ought to display something like: "Errors were encountered while processing: linux_base-c6-6.6_3, foo, bar, baz" and exit with a nonzero exit code, even if 200 packages came after those and installed correctly. Otherwise, a person will not know if their packages failed unless they happen to glance at the screen at just the right time. I originally reported this on a mailing list at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.questions/311852 I can provide a full typescript of the session if that would be helpful. It is on a brand-new 10.1-RELEASE installation.
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This is a tradeoff for now we accept failing scripts because too many of the scripts in the ports were failing when we started on pkg, it is plan to change that as we fixed most of them. The technical debt accumulate over the time...
post-install remains unchecked in pkg 1.8 will be checked in pkg 1.8.1 but pre-install are now correctly checked
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