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Re: [HEADS UP] pkgsrc default database directory changed



On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 11:28:41 +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> The new default for the pkgsrc database (which contains information
> about all installed packages) in pkgsrc-HEAD has changed from
> /var/db/pkg to ${PREFIX}/pkgdb (so usually /usr/pkg/pkgdb).

This seems to be broken with current (with the new pkg_install)
vs. building from source from pkgsrc-quarterly

The new tools use the new location by default, but the quarterly
branch uses PKG_DBDIR?=/var/db/pkg, so when you build packages the
build process looks (and writes) to the wrong place.  So you need 
PKG_DBDIR=/usr/pkg/pkgdb in mk.conf

-uwe


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