Re: netbsd-9/i386 vs. pkg_rr: Cannot process pkdbdb

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021, Greg Troxel wrote:

> So I am unclear on what's going on.  I run pkg_rr unprived all the time,
> and have not run into this.  There was a recent change to set the
> mismatch variable, and it's possible that this misses a way to elevate
> privileges.
> 
> You didn't say, but presumaly you passed the -u flag.

Yes, I habitually pass "-u".

Despite the warnings, it did go ahead and update everything.  On
subsequent runs, I wasn't able to observe whether any more messages
of that type appeared.

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