Pkgrecv Fails with MemoryError (Doc ID 2920126.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 15, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

pkgrecv error similar to:

# pkgrecv -s http://<HOSTNAME>:<PORT>/ -d <REPOSITORY_PATH>  -m all-timestamps '*'
Processing packages for publisher solaris ...
Retrieving and evaluating 82642 package(s)...
Download Manifests (29708/82642) -Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pkgrecv", line 1741, in <module>
    __ret = main_func()
  File "/usr/bin/pkgrecv", line 576, in main_func
    return transfer_pkgs(*args)
  File "/usr/bin/pkgrecv", line 1445, in transfer_pkgs
    m = get_manifest(f, xport_cfg, validate=True)
  File "/usr/bin/pkgrecv", line 246, in get_manifest
    m = xport.get_manifest(pfmri)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/vendor-packages/pkg/client/transport/transport.py", line 533, in wrapper
    return f(instance, *fargs, **f_kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/vendor-packages/pkg/client/transport/transport.py", line 1373, in get_manifest
    pathname=self.cfg.get_pkg_pathname(fmri))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 1611, in __init__
    if self.__storeback():
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 1658, in __storeback
    self.store(self.pathname)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 2000, in store
    super(FactoredManifest, self).store(mfst_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 1395, in store
    mfile.write(self.tostr_unsorted())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 198, in tostr_unsorted
    return "".join((l for l in self.as_lines()))
MemoryError

Cause

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