Subject: pkg/7566: pkg_add fails once if /var/db/pkg does not exist.
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@arioch.midgard.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/12/1999 12:21:38
>Number: 7566
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: pkg_add fails once if /var/db/pkg does not exist.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: pkg-manager (NetBSD software packages system bug manager)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 12 12:05:01 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Organization:
>Release: <NetBSD-current source date>
>Environment:
System: NetBSD arioch.midgard.net 1.4 NetBSD 1.4 (ARIOCH) #0: Mon May 10 16:49:16 PDT 1999 elric@arioch.midgard.net:/usr/Portico/NetBSD-1.4/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ARIOCH i386
>Description:
The first time I run pkg_add, it fails.
>How-To-Repeat:
rm -rf /var/db/pkg
pkg_add foo.tgz
>Fix:
Just looks like the sense of this test is not correct.
--- perform.c.orig Wed May 12 11:47:22 1999
+++ perform.c Wed May 12 11:47:40 1999
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
/* make sure dbdir actually exists! */
if (!(isdir(dbdir) || islinktodir(dbdir))) {
- if (! vsystem("/bin/mkdir -p -m 755 %s", dbdir)) {
+ if (vsystem("/bin/mkdir -p -m 755 %s", dbdir)) {
errx(1, "Database-dir %s cannot be generated, aborting.",
dbdir);
}
>Audit-Trail:
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