Re: [HEADS UP] pkgsrc default database directory changed

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 03:06:22PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > So perhaps we should switch NetBSD to run bootstrap like all the other
> > platforms... I don't know another solution.
> 
> That's adding even more disruption, and a much bigger change that was
> not discussed as part of this -- so I think for now that's out of the
> question.
> 
> An alternative is:
> 
>   tell people to move the db
>   tell people to make /var/db/pkg a symlink to /usr/pkg/pkgdb
> 
>   don't make this new pkg_install a forced dependency for everything.
>   Just let it get updated like any other package, for now and Q4
> 
>   tell people that it would be good to pkgin ug or make replace
>   pkg_install
> 
>   On February 1, make the new pkg_install required.
> 
> 
> This plan is far better IMHO for people building from sources, and for
> people installing from pkgin it will work fine.

That would have been a good plan when I discussed this in summer.

I feel that it is now too late to switch to this plan though; or at
least I don't intend to go that way now.

 Thomas

> 
> The real problem is the required circular dependency flag day, which I
> see as completetly unnecessary with a symlink.  I've been moving
> /var/db/pkg to various other places and symlinking, on a few systems
> wtih small /var, and that's been fine.