On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 07:17:35AM -0500, myportslist20190...@nym.hush.com
wrote:
> >Synopsis: man ports says set PLIST_DB but PLIST_DB is deprecated
> >Category: man pages
> >Environment:
> System : OpenBSD 6.5
> Details : OpenBSD 6.5-current (GENERIC.MP) #22: Wed Jun 12 20:26:15
> MDT 2019
>
> dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
>
> Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64
> Machine : amd64
> >Description:
> In USING A READ_ONLY PORTS tree section of man ports, it says set
> PLIST_DB but (I believe it) should say set PLIST_REPOSITORY
> Please note that man bsd.port.mk says PLIST_DB is deprecated. Also,
> setting PLIST_DB in /etc/mk.conf
> doesn't change permissions when one runs make fix-permissions, but make
> fix-permissions does work if
> one sets PLIST_REPOSITORY in /etc/mk.conf. This occurs because
> /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk in the
> fix-permissions sections affects PLIST_REPOSITORY but not PLIST_DB.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> set PLIST_DB in /etc/mk.conf and then run make fix-permissions in
> /usr/ports. The directory permissions for PLIST_DB are
> not changed. But if PLIST_REPOSITORY is set in /etc/mk.conf and make
> fix-permissions in /usr/ports is run, the permissions
> are changed appropriately.
> >Fix:
> Index: share/man/man7/ports.7
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man7/ports.7,v
> retrieving revision 1.126
> diff -u -p -u -r1.126 ports.7
> --- share/man/man7/ports.7 30 May 2019 09:24:08 -0000 1.126
> +++ share/man/man7/ports.7 16 Jun 2019 12:12:42 -0000
> @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ Set
> .Ev UPDATE_COOKIES_DIR ,
> .Ev DISTDIR ,
> and
> -.Ev PLIST_DB
> +.Ev PLIST_REPOSITORY
> in
> .Pa /etc/mk.conf
> accordingly.
Ack...
I should finish killing PLIST_DB actually. It's been deprecated for 3 years
by now :)
