Daily backups of pkgdb failure

[Hans Ottevanger]

Hi,

I upgraded my Soekris 4801 boxes from 8.1 to 8.2-STABLE (r221326) a few 
days ago and now I get the following error in the daily mail:

Backing up package db directory:
tar: : Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

These messages originate from /etc/periodic/daily/220.backup-pkgdb, 
apparently a recent addition.

The culprit is probably on line 21:

make -f/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk -V PKG_DBDIR
"/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 11: Could not find 
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

If there is no /usr/ports present on the system, the script will fail. 
Of course my systems are not unique in this respect: many people install 
pre-built packages instead of building ports themselves, especially on 
minimal hardware configurations.

Would it be a good idea to check for the presence of /usr/ports (or 
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk) first before calling make, and then try 
$PKG_DBDIR and /var/db/pkg, in that order, if this is not the case?

As far as I know this issue also affects 9.0-CURRENT.

Kind regards,

Hans Ottevanger