Subject: Re: bootstrap-pkgsrc: $pkgdbdir vs. /var/db/pkg
To: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/24/2002 13:37:30
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Chris Pinnock wrote:
> > I had --pkgdbdir set, and it didn't get passed on properly.
>
> This is a big problem on OS that have a /var/db/pkg already (but not a
> pkgsrc one e.g. OpenBSD).

Yeah, so I'd expect to have a seperate db-dir too, as I guess OpenBSD's
tools wouldn't cope with our changes (+SIZE files ,BUILD_INFO, etc.)


 - Hubert

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