On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 05:36:08PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
First -- why did pkg_admin find the copy in /etc, when 'make' did
not?
make calls pkg_admin from pkgsrc if pkg_install is installed.
Second -- this distinction looks troublesome down the road.
Normally,
I don't install pkg_install from pkgsrc; presumably, that means that
the copy in /etc would be checked. But sometimes, pkgsrc itself is
updated enough that 'make' fails until I update my package tools --
at
which point everything is going to look for a different copy. Or
am I
missing something?
...which is something I can't resolve. You can always make
/usr/pkg/etc/pkg_install.conf a symlink to /etc/pkg_install.conf :)