Re: can't buildlink files

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 06:31:52PM +0900, Ryo ONODERA wrote:
> I have the following patch for some dependency problems
> after pkgdb migration.
> I have no problem about mail/neomutt with the patch.
> 
> Index: mk/pkgformat/pkg/pkgformat-vars.mk
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/mk/pkgformat/pkg/pkgformat-vars.mk,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> diff -u -r1.9 pkgformat-vars.mk
> --- mk/pkgformat/pkg/pkgformat-vars.mk	2 Dec 2020 10:22:39 -0000	1.9
> +++ mk/pkgformat/pkg/pkgformat-vars.mk	3 Dec 2020 09:31:19 -0000
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
>  .endif
>  
>  # This is the package database directory for the default view.
> -PKG_DBDIR?=		${PREFIX}/pkgdb
> +PKG_DBDIR?=		${LOCALBASE}/pkgdb
>  
>  .if exists(/var/db/pkg) && !exists(${PKG_DBDIR})
>  PKG_DBDIR_ERROR=	The default package database directory has changed. Please run: mv /var/db/pkg ${PKG_DBDIR}
> 
> Thank you.

I've committed this, since it fixes the problem with mail/neomutt for
me.

Can anyone explain why this helps?

Can we fix this? I don't think we should use LOCALBASE any longer,
PREFIX is enough. Or perhaps I don't understand the difference (there
was one with pkgviews, but after that?)
 Thomas