Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/bootstrap

[rodent%NetBSD.org@localhost]

> On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:39:21 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:19:09AM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > Module Name:  pkgsrc
> > Committed By: jperkin
> > Date:         Tue Nov 15 11:19:09 UTC 2016
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >       pkgsrc/bootstrap: README README.Bitrig README.FreeBSD README.Interix
> >           README.MirBSD README.OpenBSD bootstrap
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > Change the default PKG_DBDIR to be ${LOCALBASE}/pkgdb.  Resolves issues on
> > other BSDs which already use /var/db/pkg for the native package manager.
> 
> This makes the situation for bootstrapping into /usr/pkg even more
> confusing on NetBSD now...
> 
> Joerg

I must agree with this, and not only on NetBSD but on all the OSes this
affected. Not only is this wrong when we consider traditional hier (7), but
also the pkgsrc documentation was not updated to reflect this. There was
nothing about this breaking change in the quarterly release announcement.

Thus, are users supposed to experience discontent when updating their machines
between _quarters_ - which are supposed to provide a semblance of stability -
spend 15-30 minutes figuring out what changed where and when it was discussed,
and generally to get stuffed otherwise? Honestly, there's nothing about how
this particular change was implemented that looks good from a UX perspective.