Re: [HEADS UP] pkgsrc default database directory changed

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

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 02:57:01PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2020, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 11:28:41AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > > The new default for the pkgsrc database (which contains information
> > > about all installed packages) in pkgsrc-HEAD has changed from
> > > /var/db/pkg to ${PREFIX}/pkgdb (so usually /usr/pkg/pkgdb).
> > 
> > Since some people have trouble installing a new pkg_install from
> > pkgsrc (because it depends on cwrappers, which depends on pkg_install)
> > - the easiest way to get a new pkg_install from pkgsrc is this:
> > 
> > cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
> > make USE_CWRAPPERS=no install
> > 
> > That will build pkg_install without cwrappers.
> > 
> > I suggest replacing /usr/sbin/pkg_* with /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_* after
> > this succeeds to avoid further problems.
> 
> (I'm one of the "somple haqve trouble installing..." mentioned above!)
> 
> Well, that's a bit of a problem for me.  I'm building everything in
> a chroot to a freshly-created sandbox (from sysutils/mksandbox) and
> /usr is a read-only null-mount file-system.  So I cannot copy the
> pkgsrc images to the "real" system.  (And I'm not sure I would want
> to be able to affect the "real" system's /usr/bin/ from within the
> chroot sandbox.)

You can cp it outside the sandbox... and use pkg_install.conf if you
want to keep using the old database directory.
 Thomas