Re: pkg_rolling-replace issue with non-installed package

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi Greg,

Greg Troxel wrote:
> Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> writes:
>
> There may well be a bug in pkg_rr, but you are reporting that the system
> has multiple issues.  pkg_rr is just a shell script and is not that
> complicated.   First:
>
>    A) check that you have only one pkgdb, in /usr/pkg/pkgdb, and not in
>    /var/db/pkg

Wow, you got it. I didn't think of this, because this is a system that 
was born with 10.0 updated to 10.1, it is not a historical upgraded system!

The bad news is that actually /var/db/pkg is more up-to-date, it 
contains all recent built and replaced files, but /usr/pkg/pkgdb is also 
very recent.
It looks like "make install" is installing in /var/db/pkg and "pkg_add" 
in  /usr/pkg/pkgdb


I fear actually that 10.1 upgrade broke something here and found out why.

Read below for my idea:


>    B) pkg_admin {rebuild, rebuild-tree, check}
>
>    C) update pkgsrc to a consistent view (pkgsrc-2025Q3, or head, all of
>    it the same).  run cvs diff to understand that all changes are
>    intended

It is, I have it on a shared NFS for a couple of systems. But clear that 
I first need to fix somehow the pkgdb mess

> You might have stuff in mk.conf that is wrong.  Reduce it to the bare
> minimum, and include it when asking for help.
>
>
> Overall I suspect a broken pkgdb situation but I'm guessin.

It is broken ! mk.conf contains a line it shouldn't:

more /etc/mk.conf
MAKE_JOBS=     2

PKG_DBDIR=/var/db/pkg

# define things for pkgsrc

# create also all dependencies
DEPENDS_TARGET=package-install

# work here
WRKOBJDIR=/disk2/pkg-workdir

# save our tarball packages here
PACKAGES=/disk2/pkg-bin

I wonder how PKG_DBDIR got in here, I suppose an error in merge after 
10.1 upgrade


I have an idea on how to fix it: delete all packages, delete /usr/pkg, 
delete db's and since I saved all binary packages built up to now, 
install those. What is obsolete/missing will be built later from source


Riccardo