Re: Initialize pkgdb on fresh NetBSD installation

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 11:17, Ottavio Caruso
<ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 10:31, Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > After fresh installation of NetBSD directory /var/db/pkg does not exist.
> > What is the correct way to initialize pkgdb?
> >
>
> My bootstrap created this on mk.conf:
> PKG_DBDIR= /usr/pkg/pkgdb
>
> $ grep pkgdbdir pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/bootstrap/bootstrap|grep prefix
> cd / && tar -hcf "${binary_kit}" .$prefix .$pkgdbdir .$etc_mk_conf
> cd / && tar -hcf - .$prefix .$pkgdbdir .$etc_mk_conf | gzip >
> "${binary_gzip_kit}"
> [ -z "$pkgdbdir" ] && pkgdbdir=${prefix}/pkgdb

I just meant to add that I don't have /var/db/pkg either:

$ ll /var/db/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 dbus dbus 4096 Dec  7 18:37 dbus/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan  4 18:51 pkgin/

and I have installed tons of programs.


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Ottavio Caruso