[ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

[Julien Laffaye]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> At this time I'd just like to suggest you add the use of WAL journal
>> (http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode) on database creation
>> so you get the benefits of multiple-readers-single-writer concurrency model.
> It sounds like a good idea. I'll add WAL support and if no problem
> arise from that we should keep it.

Despite the fact that WAL allows cool things, one disadvantage is that
the process require write privileges on the database file even if it
is only reading.
Thus, pkg info and things like that would need to be run as root...

Regards,
Julien