Hi Jonathan,
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:26:45AM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> Modified Files:
> pkgsrc/bootstrap: README README.Bitrig README.FreeBSD README.Interix
> README.MirBSD README.OpenBSD bootstrap
>
> Log Message:
> Change the default PKG_DBDIR to be ${LOCALBASE}/pkgdb. Resolves issues on
> other BSDs which already use /var/db/pkg for the native package manager.
...
> as root:
> @@ -17,13 +17,11 @@ as root:
> The defaults for the arguments are as follows:
>
> --prefix /usr/pkg
> - --pkgdbdir /var/db/pkg
> + --pkgdbdir /usr/pkg/pkgdb
Chosing this directory has side effects. Some installations share /usr between
multiple machines. Having the DB next to the packages is thus a good bonus. As
for naming and directory conventions, wouldn't /usr/pkg/var/db be a better
place?
Reinoud
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