Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg not created by sysinst.
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From: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/13/1998 11:18:46
Todd Whitesel wrote:
> I do not have a /var/db/pkg.
>
> And the 1.3.2 sysinst didn't create one either.
>
Yes, I noticed this when I upgraded to 1.3.2. However, I'd added the
directory manually when I was trying to get pkg_add to work. It didn't
work because I'd made /usr/pkg a symbolic link to /usr/local. When I tried
pkg_add on a binary packages, it would just fail. Can someone confirm that
things work OK with /usr/pkg a symlink to /usr/local in -current?
J
PS. NetBSD/Sparc 1.3.2
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