Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/sets

[Alistair Crooks <agc%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:54:55PM -0400, Jim Wise wrote:
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> Here's the revision I propose.  Barring substantial objections, I'll
> commit this, plus the accompanying src/distrib/sets/versions file
> (enclosed).

No, please don't commit this version.  There is no rush, and I prefer
the date-based scheme which we have used to good effect in pkgsrc up
until now.
 
> Another aspect of the switch to `regpkg' is it moves to registering
> syspkgs in the same pkg DB as pkgsrc packages.  I have no problem with
> this change, though at the time syspkg was proposed, there were many
> objections.

Actually, that's not true. If SYSPKG_DBDIR is set in the environment, it
will override PKG_DBDIR.
 
> It may well be that these objections aren't still around, since it has
> been some time since a `normal' pkgsrc-using system had so few packages
> installed that it made sense to read the output of pkg_info with no args
> by hand.

I'm ambivalent myself, which was why I implemented it the way I did. 
Having said that, I did find that I kept forgetting to set the right
environment variable when the two were disparate.

Regards,
Alistair