Re: install/50343: pkgsrc bootstrap broken on fresh installation of NetBSD 7.0 amd64

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/50343; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/50343: pkgsrc bootstrap broken on fresh installation of
 NetBSD 7.0 amd64
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:11:34 +0200

 On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:40:01 +0000 (UTC)
 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  ...wich is not very surprising given that it is already installed as
 >  part of the pkgin choice. Just don't bootstrap.
 
 I wonder if we should make bootstrap fail early rather than late
 with a more useful error message when the prefix or pkgdb already
 contains bootstrap components. Either that or teach bootstrap how
 to gracefully replace the existing packages (but that seems harder).