Re: pkg_rolling-replace issue with non-installed package

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> writes:

> It looks like "make install" is installing in /var/db/pkg and
> "pkg_add" in /usr/pkg/pkgdb

The change was December 2020 and almost everyone has dealt with it by
now.

  https://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgdb-change/

and note link to message about split-brain recovery.


If you want to remove/rebuild, I would recommend

  follow the instructions above about config files

  full backup of /usr/pkg, /var/db/pkg, binary packages

  make a list of packages that you want (and omti those that are dependencies)  
  save config files in etc, /usr/pkg/pgsql and any other user data

  Remove /var/db/pkg and everything in /usr/pkg (except maybe
  /usr/pkg/etc and /usr/pkgpgsql)

  Remove your built binary packages (beacuse they might encoded the
  wrong pkgdb)

  Install pkgin with pkg_admin and check the pkgdb situation

  install other wanted packages with pkgin

  build other wanted packages from source


Probably, a binary package's idea of pkgdb is only important for
pkg_install and maybe pkgin.  Probablly, having config files makes that
not matter so much.

> It is broken ! mk.conf contains a line it shouldn't:
>
> more /etc/mk.conf
> MAKE_JOBS=     2
>
> PKG_DBDIR=/var/db/pkg
>
> # define things for pkgsrc
>
> # create also all dependencies
> DEPENDS_TARGET=package-install
>
> # work here
> WRKOBJDIR=/disk2/pkg-workdir
>
> # save our tarball packages here
> PACKAGES=/disk2/pkg-bin
>
> I wonder how PKG_DBDIR got in here, I suppose an error in merge after
> 10.1 upgrade
>

> I have an idea on how to fix it: delete all packages, delete /usr/pkg,
> delete db's and since I saved all binary packages built up to now,
> install those. What is obsolete/missing will be built later from
> source

yes, but be careful about reusing pkg_install.

Read the migration script and the split-brain note.   You are multiple
years behind the crowd in dealing with this and I've forgotten a lot of
details.  The script mentioned in the article has been deleted from CVS
but you should be able to find it on old branches.