On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:23:38AM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hello everybody, > > while I think the change makes sense (if I understand it correctly, it will > make it easier for me in the future to switch between different PKG > locations including the corresponding metadata just by renaming the > respective /usr/pkg directory), I would be very happy to read a short > statement about the chronological classification again. > > Is it correct that: > > 1) this change will be active in pkgsrc-2020Q4
It is active in pkgsrc right now, the first branch that will be affected will be pkgsrc-2020Q4. > 2) requires a more recent pkg_install than the one from NetBSD 9.1 That is correct. If you are on any currently supported release you will have to manually update pkg_install first before using pkgsrc. NetBSD-current (as of shortly before 9.99.77) comes with the new pkg_install. Pullups for the active release branches (8 and 9) have been filed. Thomas