Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 05:01:19 +0000 From: Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> To: stephen@missouri.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Concerning pkgng Message-ID: <20140211050114.GA7990@anubis.morrow.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <52F9A3C9.6090804@missouri.edu>
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Quoth "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu>:
> So I have started using pkgng. It is extremely easy to convert, it runs
> very fast, and I really like it.
>
> However, it would be nice if the old pkg_install, pkg_info, etc programs
> were somehow disabled on FreeBSD-8. Maybe they could look inside
> /etc/make.conf and see if /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite exists, and then
> decide not to operate.
>
> The reason for this is because I can easily see me accidentally doing
> pkg_delete instead of pkg delete. And especially since pkg convert
> seems to leave all the old directories in /var/db/pkg, I can see this
> creating quite a mess.
>
> I know I can simply delete the pkg_delete, pkg_info binaries. But I'll
> have to remember to do that each time I remake world.
Put
WITHOUT_PKGTOOLS=1
in your /etc/src.conf. (Remember to make delete-old next time you build
world.)
Ben
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