nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 11:00:19AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: >> I realize migration is manual now, but I am not following "mess" and >> people being i a "broken state". It seems to me that following the >> instructions works and I am not seeing a lot of requests for help any >> more. > > The current migration instructions leave references to /var/db/pkg > in the refcount files, which I believe is what martin is referring to. > There's been a lot of discussions about this change outside of the > mailing list where this came up, which you would have missed out on if > you weren't following IRC and various web forums. Indeed; I do not follow IRC or forums. That's a fair point that refcount is troubled, and I withdraw my notion that things are mostly ok. > I think erroring was the wrong decision, and that's maya's idea to have > seamless backwards compatibility using /var/db/pkg on old installs and > /usr/pkg/pkgdb only on new installs is the right way forward. While I > recognise the rationale for this change and that it was already agreed > upon a long time ago, I think the problems were not anticipated - several > users have had to reinstall due to this change. It should not have been > pulled up in this state. Broadly agreed and I'll reply to maya's mail shortly.
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