Re: HEADSUP: bootstrap PKG_DBDIR default changed

[Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 11/20/16 04:42, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> 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
I explored this issue when developing auto-pkgsrc-setup 
(http://acadix.biz/pkgsrc.php) and eventually settled on a default 
location of $LOCALBASE/var/db (LOCALBASE is typically 
/usr/pkg[-snapshot] or ~/Pkgsrc/pkg[-snapshot]).  This cleanly supports 
having multiple pkgsrc trees on the same machine and otherwise follows 
naming conventions.

Cheers,

    JB

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