[OpenIndiana-discuss] gdb debugger

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 14.11.25 um 17:59 schrieb Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss:
>   How much do the additional resources cost?  I'm in for $100/month.  I can up that.  It's my sole charity.
Alas it's not only our servers (disk usage is usually between 30 and 
60GB when I clean up the repo).
The more important thing in this case is every client installation. IPS 
is using a SAT solver in order to determine what to do (eg. solving 
dependencies). With a growing number of package revisions memory 
consumption and calculation time grow non-linear. So the cleanup mainly 
happens to get these numbers down.
This is one of the negative aspects of our rolling release model. With 
real releases you gain separate repositories and thus limit the number 
of package revisions.

> I just finished an update.  Time to reboot.
> Have Fun!Reg
>
>      On Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:20:43 AM CST, Andreas Wacknitz via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>   
>   Am 14.11.25 um 17:07 schrieb Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss:
>>    I did this once but history wasn't long enough.  Now I get:
>> pkg install pkg:/developer/debug/gdb
>> Creating Plan (Solver setup): \
>> pkg install: No matching version of developer/debug/gdb can be installed:
>>      Reject:  pkg://openindiana.org/developer/debug/gdb@16.3-2025.0.0.0
>>      Reason:  This version is excluded by installed incorporation consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation at 0.5.11-2025.0.0.29754
>>
> This happens because you haven't updated your OI installation for a
> while. The latest userland-incorporation is 0.5.11-2025.0.0.31780. You
> have to run "pfexec pkg update -v" in order to update your system. This
> will create a new boot environment and you need to reboot into that.
>
> Background: userland-incorporation is a meta package that creates a
> baseline of all oi-userland packages that work together (or rather
> should work together). It is incremented with every successfully
> published PR.
>
> In a perfect world you would be able to install an appropriate version
> of gdb (the one that was recent when your version of
> userland-incorporation has been created). But as we have limited
> resources we need to "clean up" the repository.
> When this happens only the latest FMRI's of all available packages will
> be kept. This is necessary because when the amount of package revisions
> will grow, pkg operations will need more memory and time to finish. When
> a certain limit is reached pkg operations can get really slow and blow
> low memory installations.
>
>>
>>        On Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:03:44 AM CST, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>>    
>>    
>> Why did "pkg search gdb" not find it?
>>        On Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:57:39 AM CST, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
>>    
>>    
>>
>>> On 14. Nov 2025, at 17:55, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Where is it?  I am running:
>>> SunOS hipster 5.11 illumos-d0efbbf6c9 i86pc i386 i86pc
>>> I've added the two other publishers but find no mention of gdb or any other debugger for binary files using pkg search with anything I can think of that is relevant.
>>>
>>> Really a compiler without a debugger?  Gad!
>>> Thanks,Reg
>>>
>> pkg install pkg:/developer/debug/gdb
>> pkg contents pkg:/developer/debug/gdb
>>
>> rgds,
>> toomas
>>
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