Re: Two pkcsrc installations in parallel?

[Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 2019-04-25 12:54, Thomas Lazar wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I wanted to ask if it is possible to have two pkgsrc installations running in parallel?
>
> My problem is that I have an older netbsd running with a very outdated pkgsrc version. I didn't really keep current with that one and I know some things like the qmail pkg changed quite a bit so I'm kinda afraid to just like "update" the packages.
>
> My idea was to have another new pkgsrc installation in parallel and reproduce my setup from there then kinda just switch over.
>
> I don't really think that it's possible. Just thinking on how qmail needs it's stuff to kinda be in /var/qmail and sumsuch.
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
I do this regularly on CentOS and NetBSD, mainly installing quarterly 
snapshots for long-term scientific studies that need the same version of 
a package throughout.

The auto-pkgsrc-setup script at http://netbsd.org/~bacon/ will help you 
easily create as many additional trees as you like.

It also wraps bmake in a script that verifies you're running from the 
correct tree.?? The bmake binary has some hard-coded paths in it, so you 
cannot use bmake from a different tree, or you'll mess up your pkg database.

Regards,

?????? JB