John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> writes: > We have issues with non-default LOCALBASE with regards to NetBSD's > default, in-tree pkg tools. > > Just curious - what harm would happen if NetBSD's pkg tools checked > /etc/mk.conf for LOCALBASE and used that for PKG_DBDIR if > /usr/pkg/pkgdb doesn't exist? Hard to really say. The history of PKG_DBDIR lossage is that it has been much harder to get right than anybody thought it would be. If you have pkgsrc in non-standard location you need to set PKG_DBDIR in both pkg_install.conf files. I am not in favor of adding complexity to avoid that. And, I'd say that if a tool wants to use /usr/pkg/pkgdb (PKG_DBDIR compiled to that) and /usr/pkg does not exist, that should be a hard error).
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