Re: [HEADS UP] pkgsrc default database directory changed

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

On 07/12/2020 10:06, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 09:53:46AM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote:
> > More fallout from this change:
> >
> > => Build dependency cwrappers>=20150314: NOT found
> > => Verifying reinstall for ../../pkgtools/cwrappers
> > ===> Trying to handle out-dated pkg_install...
> > ===> Cleaning for pkg_install-20201205
> > ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
> > ERROR: Circular dependency detected
> >
> > This is on an empty system trying to build cwrappers.
>
> You must rebuild and replace pkg_install first.
What an awful user experience for a first time user. Oh pkgsrc doesn't 
work unless you do some special magic first.

Also in this particular case doing that step is actually awkward because 
the builds are being done by an script (which I've not got to modify to 
handle this ridiculous special case).

Mike