Re: "Please unset PKG_PATH before doing pkgsrc work!" message

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 12/10/25 a las 17:32, adr escribió:
> > I have a small concern that just came to me. For installing pkgin you
> > are instructed to set PKG_PATH variable:
> >
> >
> > # PKG_PATH="https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$(uname
> > -p)/$(uname -r|cut -f '1 2' -d.)/All/"
> > # export PKG_PATH
> > # pkg_add pkgin
>
> Hi Ramiro. You are a little confused. Not your fault. You need to
> set PKG_PATH with that shell incantation so pkg_add will fetch the
> default binary version of pkgin and its dependencies for you netbsd
> version.  Once you have installed pkgin, you don't have to have
> PKG_PATH set.  pkgin will store the repository at
>   /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf.

Oh, yes, thanks Adr, I missunderstood it, there is no need to set 
PKG_PATH permanently.

> You allways have to unset PKG_PATH when compiling your packages.

ok.


> Note that once packages are built, they are treated like any other
> binary packages and the basic pkg tools like pkg_add are used to managed
> dependencies, &c by the pkgsrc framework.
>
> Regards.
> adr.

Thanks so much for clarifying it.
Ramiro.