pkg-install(8), url: "file://" and PKG_CACHEDIR

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:29:06AM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> Moving to pkg at FreeBSD.org
> 
> On 6/21/14, 12:33 PM, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > today I tried pkg(8) for the first time.
> > Thanks for all the great work!
> >
> > One thing I'm missing is a auto-matching-logic for PKG_CACHEDIR if 'url'
> > starts with "file://" (in ${PRREFIX}/pkg/repos/mylocalrepo.conf).
> >
> > Currently, local available packages will be copied to the local cache
> > dir by default (if not circumvented by 'env
> > PKG_CACHEDIR=/path/to/local-repo pkg install …' e.g.).
> > Such a PKG_CACHEDIR-matching-logic should be enabled by default IMHO.
> 
> Warning, this will stop working in pkg 1.3 and cause many problems in 
> your repo. The filenames are stored differently in the cachedir and now 
> symlinks are used to point to the newly cached files - which will remove 
> all of your existing packages.
> 
> >
> > Maybe it's usefull to have a "pkg-install -K" option, (like -K,--keep
> > for old pkg_add), to disable the PKG_CACHEDIR-mathcing-logic (for
> > example if someone provides cd-repo and intentionally wants to keep
> > packages in PKG_CACHEDIR).
> >
> > Anyone else missing that feature?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Harry
> >
> >
> This is somewhat an extension to the feature request in 
> https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/697
> 
> I will take a look before 1.3 release to see if disabling cache for 
> file:// is straight forward. We're in a feature freeze right now so I 
> don't want to introduce too much risk.

IIRC I already disabled cache for file:// in pkg 1.3

regards,
Bapt
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