Re: pkgdb

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 07:09:27AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Sorry if this sounds grumpy, but another few days have passed and things
> did not get fixed - every day we leave the current mess around makes
> people follow the instructions and move themselves into a broken state.
> 
> We should *really* back out all changes *now*, undo the pullups
> to the netbsd stable branches, and *then* sit back, re-think how the
> move should happen and do it differently sometime in the future.
> 
> Everyone who has managed to (semi-) move by now will easily be able to
> move back.
> 
> Unless someone has a working solution ready and we can move to "fixed"
> state immediately, but I have big doubts believing that all fallout has
> already been found.
> 

- Binary package install will install to /var/db/pkg if it exists and no
  /usr/pkg/pkgdb exists.
- Build of a source package will error, asking the user to specify
  PKG_DBDIR=/var/db/pkg/

http://coypu.sdf.org/pkg_install3.diff

OK to commit?