Disallow installing/uninstalling packages from host configuration

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bpkg/pkg-install.hxx b/bpkg/pkg-install.hxx
index 120576a..3898c1a 100644
--- a/bpkg/pkg-install.hxx
+++ b/bpkg/pkg-install.hxx
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
 
 namespace bpkg
 {
+  // Note that we disallow installing packages from the host/build2
+  // configurations. The reason for that is that otherwise we can fail, trying
+  // to build a package both for install and normally (as a dependency).
+  //
   inline int
   pkg_install (const pkg_install_options& o, cli::group_scanner& args)
   {
@@ -24,6 +28,7 @@ namespace bpkg
                         o.all (),
                         o.all_pattern (),
                         false /* package_cwd */,
+                        false /* allow_host_type */,
                         args);
   }
 }