Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
So let's reiterate the problem. NetBSD insists on shipping pkg_install with base. pkg_install gets updated in pksrc for new features. NetBSD users now have a problem. (a) Overwriting /usr/sbin/pkg_* is bad -- you update your world and you now have a different version, completely unexpected. (b) pkg_install could move away the old version in /usr/sbin. Same issue as (a). (c) User modifies PATH or adds aliases. (d) pkg_install gets dropped from base. Oh wonder, now we have the same situation as on all other pkgsrc platforms.
(e) Make pkg_install in base install into /usr/libexec/pkg_install and create a pkgwrapper(8) that works much like mailwrapper(8) and reads /etc/pkgwrapper.conf for configuration information. Make pkg_install in pkgsrc install into ${PREFIX}/libexec/pkg_install and provides an example pkgwrapper.conf that can be copied into /etc to make pkgwrapper use the pkgsrc-installed versions of the pkg_* tools.
This choice avoids the problems with (a), (b) or (c). Yes, this is more complex, but it does fix the problem without removing pkg_install from a base install of NetBSD.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam