Re: pkg_info fails for non-installed packages when PKG_CACHE is set to a directory the current user can't write to

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 09:05:53PM +0200, Lari Rasku wrote:
> Oct 27 snapshot, amd64.
>
> When PKG_CACHE is set:
>
> $ cat /etc/profile
> export PKG_CACHE=/var/cache/pkg
>
> To a directory the current user lacks write access to:
>
> $ touch /var/cache/pkg/somefile
> touch: /var/cache/pkg/somefile: Permission denied
>
> Trying to call pkg_info on an uninstalled package fails:
>
> $ pkg_info -e lumina-1.3.0pl1p2; echo $?
> 1
> $ pkg_info lumina-1.3.0pl1p2
> Fatal error: bad PKG_CACHE directory /var/cache/pkg
> at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageRepository.pm line 669.
>
> This is surprising, because I didn't expect pkg_info to write anything but
> temporary files; PKG_CACHE is not documented on pkg_info(1). The program
> doesn't apparently even intend to cache anything, as when I temporarily set
> PKG_CACHE to something writable:

Fun one. Well, people usually don't define PKG_CACHE manually, but rely
on the ports tree to do it when needed.

Tweaking the full chain to only handle it with pkg_add would be feasible.

Somewhat low priority.