Subject: Re: What is /tmp.refcount for?
To: Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org>
From: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/10/2005 18:21:55
Am 10.03.2005 um 18:17 Uhr +0100 schrieb Juan RP:
>On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:12:38 +0100
>Juan RP <juan@xtraeme.nopcode.org> wrote:
>
>>  On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:56:12 +0100
>>  Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>>
>>  > Well, then I'd expect it under /var/pkg or /var/db or somewhere like
>>  > that. Excuse my french, but randomly creating (poorly documented - at
>>  > least Google had nothing to say about it) directories in / seems like
>>  > a silly idea to me...
>>  >
>>  > Is there any variable to move this directory elsewhere?
>>
>>  PKG_REFCOUNT_DBDIR, but note it's defined as:
>>
>>  PKG_REFCOUNT_DBDIR?=  ${PKG_DBDIR}.refcount
>
>I was wrong...
>
>jlam said that was a problem with older versions of pkg_install, this
>directory may be removed, don't forget to update your pkg_install tools.

Ah, good. The installation is a 2005-02-27 snapshot build from 
netbsd-2 branch - apparently not current enough?

	hauke

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