Oct 27 snapshot, amd64.
When PKG_CACHE is set:
$ cat /etc/profile
export PKG_CACHE=/var/cache/pkg
To a directory the current user lacks write access to:
$ touch /var/cache/pkg/somefile
touch: /var/cache/pkg/somefile: Permission denied
Trying to call pkg_info on an uninstalled package fails:
$ pkg_info -e lumina-1.3.0pl1p2; echo $?
1
$ pkg_info lumina-1.3.0pl1p2
Fatal error: bad PKG_CACHE directory /var/cache/pkg
at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageRepository.pm line 669.
This is surprising, because I didn't expect pkg_info to write anything
but temporary files; PKG_CACHE is not documented on pkg_info(1). The
program doesn't apparently even intend to cache anything, as when I
temporarily set PKG_CACHE to something writable:
$ cd $HOME
$ PKG_CACHE=. pkg_info lumina-1.3.0pl1p2
Information for https://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots
/packages/amd64/lumina-1.3.0pl1p2.tgz
Comment:
Lumina Desktop Environment
Description:
Lumina-DE is a lightweight, BSD licensed desktop environment.
Maintainer: Bryan C. Everly <[email protected]>
WWW: http://lumina-desktop.org/
It works, but nothing is actually cached:
$ ls lumina-1.3.0pl1p2.tgz
ls: lumina-1.3.0pl1p2.tgz: No such file or directory
Is this a bug, or just an unsupported use case?
