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Re: What happened to $VARBASE/cache ?



Hi,

In message <CAEJNuHwM6pjdXVYVCmYkq6g=aahB3q+vC6dhsg_T6t5RjHforg%mail.gmail.com@localhost>
	on Mon, 22 Mar 2021 03:15:18 +0000,
	Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> I have recently bootstrapped on a fresh installation of Debian Buster
> with "--varbase /usr/pkg/var".
> 
> I expected to find a "/usr/pkg/var/cache" but it's not there. Has
> anything changed recently? I know there have been changes to
> ${PREFIX}/pkgdb, but this shouldn't have interfered with
> $VARBASE/cache.
AFAIK, $VARBASE/cache is not created by bootstrap but is created by a
package that require it.

On my pkgsrc installed Mac,

% ls /opt/pkg/var/cache 
fontconfig

When fontconfig package was installed, it created $VARBASE/cache/fontconfig.

-- 
Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>


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