Re: How to prevent locally compiled packages from upgrading

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 18/5/25 a las 11:04, Jonathan Perkin escribió:
> * On 2025-05-18 at 08:01 BST, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
>
> > Now pkgin upgrade wants to upgrade them. How can I hold them into the 
> > current version without touching my locally compiled and installed ones?
>
> The way to think of pkgin is that it is a program that syncs your chosen 
> packages keyed on PKGPATH with whatever is available in its configured 
> repository.  Regardless of whether the version in the repository goes 
> forwards, backwards, or sideways, pkgin will sync it as long as it has 
> the same PKGPATH.
>
> So, if you build your own local versions of any particular programs, you 
> need to make sure they have a different PKGPATH to those available in 
> the repository.  Then pkgin will treat it as a completely different 
> package.
>
> One of the ways I've suggested folks do this in the past is to create a 
> pkgsrc/local directory, and then symlink from there to the packages you 
> maintain locally, so for example:
>
>    pkgsrc/local/gnuradio-core -> ../ham/gnuradio-core
>
> then build via that symlink (assuming WRKOBJDIR is set to a non-symlink 
> directory) and the package will have PKGPATH=local/gnuradio-core.
>
> An alternative is to edit the +BUILD_INFO files for each package in 
> question and change PKGPATH there directly, but this will need to be 
> done every time you upgrade them.
>
> This might be something I add more formally to pkgin at some point, but 
> the problem is that pkgsrc is specifically designed to always be in sync 
> with itself, and there's no way to officially support the notion of "do 
> not touch this package" without immediately removing any guarantee that 
> the package will continue to work in any capacity whatsoever.  Users 
> should be fully aware that anything that diverges from an exact copy of 
> what is available in the remote repository is highly likely to break.
>
> Hope that helps,

Hello Jonathan,

Thanks very much for you great help. Sorry, I am very novice with this 
and I think I have not  understood well the proposed procedure.

I have just created a local directory inside the usual pkgsrc tree 
/usr/pkgsrc/:

/usr/pkgsrc/local

I make a symbolic link:

netbsd-x260# pwd
/usr/pkgsrc/local


netbsd-x260# ls -l
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20 May 18 15:22 gnuradio-core -> 
../ham/gnuradio-core
netbsd-x260#

netbsd-x260# cd gnuradio-core/

netbsd-x260# make install

....
...
.




netbsd-x260# pkg_info -B gnuradio-core|grep PKGPATH
PKGPATH=ham/gnuradio-core



PKGPATH is the same as before.


Thanks in advance.
Ramiro.