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Re: pkgdb



Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>> I am going to defer dealing with this until after the branch.  It's
>> obviously controversial, is enough to say for now.
>>
>> I ask everyone to table this discussion until the branch is done.
>
> It's too late for some of us. I've messed things up enough that I can't
> even install pkg_install.

I didn't mean that at all.   I meant the discussion about changing
pkgsrc and the NetBSD base system to not have pkg tools.

> How do I delete the DB and start over? I have all the bin/sbin files
> still intact.

Set PKG_DBDIR in pkg_install.conf to point to your DB, and also in
mk.conf.   Delete the pkg_ tools from pkgsrc, and use the base ones to
install.  I think that will work.

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