Solving circular dependency?

0x1b
This is due to the move of pkgdb.

Disclaimer 1: I'm not sure things will change slightly going forward and what further adjustments will be implemented.

Disclaimer 2: At some of the following stages the system will have no package manager, please make no mistakes. You will need to force remove pkgin and pkg_install. Warning: back-up your stuff in case you will need to re-install.

Please make sure your pkgsrc tree is up-to-date where ever you have it, I'll assume the default location from now on.

$ cs /usr/pkgsrc
$ cvs up -dP
# pkg_delete -ff pkgin pkg_install

At this point you have no package manager and no way to go back, only forward

$ cd pkgtools/pkg_install
# mv /var/db/pkg /usr/pkg/pkgdb
# mv /var/db/pkg.refcount /usr/pkg/pkgdb.refcount
# make USE_CWRAPPERS=no install
$ cd /usr/pkg/sbin
# install -c pkg_add pkg_admin pkg_create pkg_delete pkg_info /usr/sbin/
$ cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
# make clean
# make clean-depends
# make distclean

At this point you have only the pkg_install tools available to work with. Actually, you should have two copies of the tools. Check if you want, pkg_* should be present inside both, /usr/sbin and /usr/pkg/sbin. We need to get rid of the second set before we build pkgin

Fix to pkgin issues: cd to / and edit root's .profile, moving /usr/pkg/sbin before /usr/sbin.

$ cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgin
$ make
# make install
# make clean
# make clean-depends
# make distclean

Yes, pkg_delete will remove only the copies inside /usr/pkg/sbin. Another way to do this would be to manually delete all the pkg_* components from inside the directory itself, both work.

Final test, you might have noticed that while building pkgin, you had to actually build net/libfetch dependency first. This is a build dependency of pkgin but, its not a runtime dependency. If everything worked you should be able to remove it using the newly built pkgin. Let's try,

# pkgin remove libfetch
Password:
1 packages to delete: 
  libfetch-2.39nb1

proceed ? [Y/n] y

Good to go then

Now, upgrading using pkgin should be fine.

0x1b The instructions above are exactly how I did it and it works. You need to remove pkg_install and pkgin before you move the pkgdb, otherwise they will still be listed.

You can move things back to /usr/sbin and follow the steps above in order.

You could also try using make USE_CWRAPPERS=no update instead of install, just make sure you uninstall pkgin first.

0x1b I hope you don't mind but, I've formated your post to make it easier to read.

Could I also have the output of ls -lp /usr/pkg/pkgdb | grep pkgin and ls -lp /var/db/pkg ?
If the second command outputs something containing pkgdb, please provide also the output of ls -lp /var/db/pkg/pkgdb | grep pkgin.

Thanks!

0x1b

ls -l /var/db
total 57800
...
drwxr-xr-x 457 root    wheel      13312 Dec  8 09:22 pkg
...

So, something was left behind after all.

find /usr/sbin -name pkg_*
zsh: no matches found: pkg_
find /usr/pkg/sbin -name pkg_*
zsh: no matches found: pkg_*

Yes, pkg_install is not there anymore.

ls -l /usr/pkg
total 204
...
drwxr-xr-x 458 root wheel 13312 Dec  8 09:51 pkgdb
drwxr-xr-x   6 root wheel   512 Dec  6 02:12 pkgdb.refcount
...

Good, these are in place now

ls -lp /usr/pkg/pkgdb | grep pkgin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root wheel      512 Dec  8 03:28 pkgin-20.8.0/

We need to address this and re-build pkgin. Later...

ls -lp /var/db/pkg | grep pkg
drwxr-xr-x 463 root wheel    13312 Dec  8 04:45 pkg/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root wheel      512 Dec  8 04:45 pkgconf-1.6.0/
-rw-r--r--   1 root wheel 23699456 Dec  8 09:22 pkgdb.byfile.db

Hmm... so, these are the leftovers.

WARNING: I don't promisse this will work it would have been better to do it as described above. But, if you want to try... hope I got it all right

# mv /var/db/pkg /usr/pkg/pkgdb
# mv /var/db/pkgconf-1.6.0 /usr/pkg/pkgdb
# mv /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.byfile.db /usr/pkg/pkgdb
$ cd /usr/pkgsrc/
$ cvs up -dP
$ cd pkgtools/pkg_install
# make USE_CWRAPPERS=no install
$ cd /usr/pkg/sbin
# install -c pkg_add pkg_admin pkg_create pkg_delete pkg_info /usr/sbin/
$ cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
# make clean
# make clean-depends
# make distclean

EDIT: cd to / and edit root's .profile, moving /usr/pkg/sbin before /usr/sbin.

$ cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgin
$ make
# make install
# make clean
# make clean-depends
# make distclean

Good luck!

EDIT: If, removing pkgin fails we'll have to do it manually. Let me know how it goes.

Warning: Something is still badly broken in connection to the pkgdb move and pkgin

pin Phewwwww... then I can stop getting more and more C0FFEE while retrying... I solved my local hiccups on amd64 and i386 VMs with a symlink (/var/db/pkg –> /usr/pkg/pkgdb) and will delay updates of other systems until more info materialises.

...staying ॐmmmmmmptimistic...