Re: Regular NetBSD packaging and pkgin
On 12 Jul 2021, Greg Troxel wrote: > Benny Siegert 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
Re: Regular NetBSD packaging and pkgin
Benny Siegert writes: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 2:46 AM Mark Carroll wrote: >> Does anybody have an idea what I messed up on the >> latter? I first noticed when "pkg_admin audit" was telling me less than >> I expected on that system. > > 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/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Regular NetBSD packaging and pkgin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 2:46 AM Mark Carroll wrote: > Does anybody have an idea what I messed up on the > latter? I first noticed when "pkg_admin audit" was telling me less than > I expected on that system. 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. -- Benny
Regular NetBSD packaging and pkgin
I've somehow misconfigured something and can't work out what. On one NetBSD 9.2 system, if I pkgin install something, then "pkg_info -u" reports it as installed. On the other, pkg_info doesn't seem to know anything about what I installed with pkgin, though "pkgin show-keep" still shows it fine. Does anybody have an idea what I messed up on the latter? I first noticed when "pkg_admin audit" was telling me less than I expected on that system. -- Mark
