svn commit: r243554 - in head/usr.sbin/pkg_install: add create delete info lib updating version

[Eitan Adler]

On 28 November 2012 21:34, Stanislav Sedov <stas at 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.

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Eitan Adler
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