Re: pkgdb

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, John D. Baker wrote:

> The issue of absolute paths to "/var/db/pkg/..." in files under
> "pkgdb.refcount" had me concerned.  On one platform a quick 3-liner shell
> program changed all those references to point to the new location.  On
> other platforms I did nothing (not even "/var/db/pkg" as a symlink to the
> new location).  I have so far had no problems in either case...

In case it's useful:

  # cd /usr/pkg/pkgdb.refcount
  # find . -type f -exec grep -l "/var/db/pkg" {} \; \
	| sh -c 'while read f ; do echo "sed 's,/var/db/pkg,/usr/pkg/pkgdb,g' $f > /tmp/foo ; rm $f ; mv /tmp/foo $f" ; done' | sh -v

(In my case, I did these as an unprivledged user and the final command
was 'sudo sh -v' to execute as root.)

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