On 28 November 2012 21:34, Stanislav Sedov <s...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Well, it's not entirely true. I did end up with local.sqlite because I > stepped on the landmine of portmgr-pkg becoming the default for some > reason. So I did end up with half of my packages being in the pkgng > sqlite database, and half in standard /var/db/pkg.
How did this happen without running pkg2ng ? > I had to convert > them back to standard format by hand, but I still have the sqlite database > just in case. This is a rare case and exactly the use case for the environment variable. Perhaps you could also just rename the file. > I guess if you really want to prevent a foot-shooting, you should add > a message to pkgng sayng in all caps e.g. "You are running experimental > package manager and there's no migration plan from pkgng to old pkg > exists." and maybe ask for confirmation. pkg is not maintained by FreeBSD so I couldn't add this if I wanted to ;) > I don't really see how this > message being in pkg_ tools helps to prevent a possible foot-shooting > at all. It reminds people that using the pkg_* tools once a conversion is done is wrong. > At very least, it makes sense to make it conditional on WITH_PKGNG, so this > code does not end up compiled in if PKGNG is disabled in src.conf. Interesting idea. Maybe I shall do this. -- Eitan Adler Source, Ports, Doc committer Bugmeister, Ports Security teams _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
