On 12 Jul 2021, Greg Troxel wrote: > Benny Siegert <bsieg...@gmail.com> writes: (snip) >> It sounds like pkgin and your pkg_* tools disagree on what the correct >> PKG_DBDIR is. Probably one of them is using /var/db/pkg and the other >> /usr/pkg/pkgdb. Check if you have both, set the location in the >> respective config files explicitly, and try merging the two db dirs. > > Agreed, and details at: > > https://pkgsrc.org/pkgdb-change/
Thank you both: thanks to the hints and those details, I have now restored the odd system to sanity, basically by using "pkg_delete -f", removing /usr/pkg/pkgdb/, then "pkgin install -f" and "pkgin unkeep" on what I deleted. It helped that the stray packages were simply dependencies that had no interesting associated configuration that I wanted to preserve. -- Mark
