[pkgsrc/trunk]: pkgsrc/doc doc/NEWS: Update for recent infrastructure changes

[nia <nia%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/rev/d18afd756574
branches:  trunk
changeset: 443024:d18afd756574
user:      nia <nia%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
date:      Sat Dec 05 15:16:40 2020 +0000

description:
doc/NEWS: Update for recent infrastructure changes

diffstat:

 doc/NEWS |  23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (37 lines):

diff -r cb46c40f2fd4 -r d18afd756574 doc/NEWS
--- a/doc/NEWS  Sat Dec 05 14:56:44 2020 +0000
+++ b/doc/NEWS  Sat Dec 05 15:16:40 2020 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: NEWS,v 1.13 2020/03/30 10:04:27 nia Exp $
+# $NetBSD: NEWS,v 1.14 2020/12/05 15:16:40 nia Exp $
 
 PKGSRC NEWS
 ===========
@@ -7,6 +7,27 @@
   pkgsrc. The intended readers are the pkgsrc developers as well as anyone
   tracking pkgsrc-current.
 
+Python 3.8 default [nia 2020-12-04]
+       The default Python verison was switched to 3.8.
+
+Default database location changed for NetBSD [wiz 2020-12-02]
+       The database of installed packages now defaults to ${PREFIX}/pkgdb
+       instead of /var/db/pkg on NetBSD. This matches the default on
+       other operating systems and cases where a non-default bootstrap
+       is used.
+
+       To deal with this change, run the following commands:
+
+       cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
+       make USE_CWRAPPERS=no install
+       cd /usr/pkg/sbin
+       install -c pkg_add pkg_admin pkg_create pkg_delete pkg_info /usr/sbin/
+       mv /var/db/pkg /usr/pkg/pkgdb
+       mv /var/db/pkg.refcount /usr/pkg/pkgdb.refcount
+
+       Since this change affects the packaging tools only, there is no change
+       to binary packages and they do not need to be rebuilt.
+
 lua 5.3 default [nia 2020-03-30]
        The default Lua version was switched to 5.3.
        Since many packages specify a preferred Lua version, this is mainly