Re: [HEADS UP] pkgsrc default database directory changed

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 02/12/2020 23:41, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 03:07:55PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > This is just getting too complicated.  Too many manual steps, and too
> > many changes to too many long-established procedures.
>
> Yeah, I'm sorry that you spent too much time on this.
>
> Actually, the easiest way is to just:
>
> cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
> make USE_CWRAPPERS=no install
> install -c /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_* /usr/sbin
Err. This works great until the next system update. At which point the 
system pkg_* binaries will be re-instated and break everything. Unless 
you are going to ensure that /usr/sbin/pkg_* are going to be updated not 
just in current but also in the 9, 8 and 7 release branches which are 
all still supported.

Any solution that overwrites core binaries with a binary from pkgsrc 
won't survive an OS upgrade.

As others have said this is starting to look like the consequences of 
the change have not been thought through.

Mike