Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 05:54:37 +0100 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@optiplex-networks.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgraded from 13.x release to 14.4 and now I can't use the ports tree? Message-ID: <41488858-2bed-429a-beae-6886de7fdf37@optiplex-networks.com> In-Reply-To: <1cc06f0d-d10c-44bc-90de-bf1e1c1a61ea@optiplex-networks.com> References: <27136c7e-8026-4e1e-9714-497a75c74ede@optiplex-networks.com> <SA1PR11MB881181F39DB1347A0DF364F9E60B2@SA1PR11MB8811.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> <CALvWPyawLXn6eawFjud953UCQvZHbkFZ9_EEeEeaazR9EsoujQ@mail.gmail.com> <1cc06f0d-d10c-44bc-90de-bf1e1c1a61ea@optiplex-networks.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Ok so unfortunately this thing bummed out on zstd now: ===> Installing for zstd-1.5.7_2 ===> Checking if zstd is already installed ===> An older version of zstd is already installed (zstd-1.5.7_1) You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of zstd without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" in your environment or the "make install" command line. *** Error code 1 Stop. make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/archivers/zstd/work/.install_done.zstd._usr_local" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd *** Error code 1 Stop. make: stopped making "install" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd #pkg info |grep zstd zstd-1.5.7_1 Fast real-time compression algorith # make deinstall; make install clean ===> Deinstalling for zstd ===> Deinstalling zstd-1.5.7_1 No packages matched for pattern 'zstd' Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) 1 packages requested for removal: 0 locked, 1 missing *** Error code 1 Stop. make: stopped making "deinstall" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd ===> Installing for zstd-1.5.7_2 ===> Checking if zstd is already installed ===> An older version of zstd is already installed (zstd-1.5.7_1) You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of zstd without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" in your environment or the "make install" command line. *** Error code 1 Stop. make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/archivers/zstd/work/.install_done.zstd._usr_local" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd *** Error code 1 Stop. make: stopped making "install clean" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd So make check-plist shows: /usr/ports/archivers/zstd # make check-plist ====> Checking for pkg-plist issues (check-plist) ===> Parsing plist ===> Checking for items in STAGEDIR missing from pkg-plist ===> Checking for items in pkg-plist which are not in STAGEDIR ===> No pkg-plist issues found (check-plist) /usr/ports/archivers/zstd # make stage-qa ====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa) /!\ To run stage-qa automatically add DEVELOPER=yes to your environment /!\ So added to /etc/make.conf and now: /usr/ports/archivers/zstd # make stage-qa ====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa That's all I get?? Regards, Kaya On 5/27/26 2:22 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > > Hi, > > > On 5/26/26 9:23 PM, Maku Bex wrote: >> You ran the commands under '/usr/ports' instead of >> '/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster'. You need to `cd` to the port >> name's folder then run the commands. In your case: >> >> # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster >> # make check-plist && make stage-qa >> > > Sorry I think I just blindly followed instructions or misunderstood as > I had been awake for a little too long. > > > Some good news, after removing and re-fetching the ports tree, I was > able to rebuild Portmaster through using the standard "make" command > and portmaster itself. > > > At the moment, I've just done a: portmaster -adyf --no-confirm > > > hopefully if the @ports system has stabilized now it should be able to > complete the build of Perl which it got stuck on. Currently it's on 9 > out of 828 ports, so maybe in a few hours once it gets to say port 11 > or something where Perl gets rebuilt I should know. > > > The machine is only a quad core Xeon so this will take some time but > hopefully now it will build? > > > I'll keep everyone posted :-) > > > Regards, > > > Kaya > > >> On Tue, May 26, 2026, 14:31 Edward Sanford Sutton, III >> <mirror176@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 5/25/26 22:43, Kaya Saman wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > >> > I've just gone through the upgrade procedure described here: >> > >> > >> > https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/ >> > >> > >> > and updated to 14.4 from 13.5 (I think was the latest release >> version?), >> > uname output: 14.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64 >> > >> > >> > When I try to build ports now, this is what I keep getting: >> > >> > >> > ===>>> Creating a backup package for old version portmaster-3.35 >> > Creating package for portmaster-3.35 >> > pkg-static: file >> '/usr/local/share/licenses/portmaster-3.35/BSD2CLAUSE' >> > is missing >> > pkg-static: package creation failed >> > >> > ===>>> Package creation failed for portmaster-3.35! >> > >> > ===>>> Ignore this error [i] >> > ===>>> Abort update [a] >> > ===>>> Retry [r] >> > >> > ===>>> How would you like to proceed? [i] >> > >> > No packages matched for pattern 'portmaster-3.35' >> > >> > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) >> > 1 packages requested for removal: 0 locked, 1 missing >> > >> > ===> Installing for portmaster-3.35 >> > ===> Checking if portmaster is already installed >> > ===> portmaster-3.35 is already installed >> > You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port >> again >> > by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. >> > If you really wish to overwrite the old port of portmaster >> > without deleting it first, set the variable >> "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" >> > in your environment or the "make install" command line. >> > *** Error code 1 >> > >> > Stop. >> > make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/ >> > work/.install_done.portmaster._usr_local" in >> /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/ >> > portmaster >> > *** Error code 1 >> > >> > Stop. >> > make: stopped making "install" in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster >> > >> > ===>>> A backup package for portmaster-3.35 should >> > be located in /usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup >> > >> > ===>>> Installation of portmaster-3.35 (ports-mgmt/portmaster) >> failed >> > ===>>> Aborting update >> > >> > >> > ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this >> command line: >> > portmaster <flags> ports-mgmt/portmaster >> > >> > This command has been saved to ~/portmasterfail.txt >> > >> > >> > >> > For some reason I'm unable to use either portmaster or even the >> standard >> > 'make' command under any of the ports eg: >> > >> > >> > :/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster # make deinstall; make >> install clean >> > ===> Deinstalling for portmaster >> > ===> Deinstalling portmaster-3.35 >> > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) >> > Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages >> (of 0 >> > packages in the universe): >> > >> > Installed packages to be REMOVED: >> > portmaster: 3.33 >> > >> > Number of packages to be removed: 1 >> > [1/1] Deinstalling portmaster-3.33... >> > [1/1] Deleting files for portmaster-3.33: 100% >> > ===> Installing for portmaster-3.35 >> > ===> Checking if portmaster is already installed >> > ===> portmaster-3.35 is already installed >> > You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port >> again >> > by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. >> > If you really wish to overwrite the old port of portmaster >> > without deleting it first, set the variable >> "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" >> > in your environment or the "make install" command line. >> > *** Error code 1 >> > >> > Stop. >> > make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/ >> > work/.install_done.portmaster._usr_local" in >> /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/ >> > portmaster >> > *** Error code 1 >> > >> > Stop. >> > make: stopped making "install clean" in >> /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster >> > >> > >> > There's a mismatch somewhere but what's going on? >> >> The ports tree, and therefore portmaster, perform installs and >> uninstalls by running pkg. Running `pkg query %v portmaster` should >> display what is says is currently the installed version number. >> If it is >> installed according to pkg, then `pkg delete portmaster` should >> be the >> correct action to remove it. `pkg info` outputs all installed >> packages >> with version on the package name and comment beside it if you >> want to >> manually review your full list. >> I'm not sure what would have brought it to a state of always >> removing >> pkg 3.33 when the ports tree and/or portmaster says it is >> uninstalling >> 3.35 before that. I'd guess just an output bug where they assume >> its the >> same version but that is misleading if that is happening and >> deserves a >> bug report; better to display no version number on a stage's >> output if >> the output is going to not match the command. >> >> > Do I need to update the ports tree? It seems there is no more >> "portsnap" >> > command so should I clean out /usr/ports completely then use >> the git >> > version described here: >> >> You should decide if there is anything in there that you want >> backed >> up first: distfiles will only be used by a port calling for them and >> generally require size and checksum match to be used so should be >> safe >> to keep and will save download time/bandwidth. Work directories >> of many >> ports get a versioned folder inside of it but the ports tree >> instructions don't check that what already exists is correct; in any >> case I'd let them all go if builds are giving you trouble (just >> as 'make >> clean' would have done in a port's folder). >> >> > https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/ >> > >> > >> > I guess this would be needed: # git clone --depth 1 https:// >> > git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git <http://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git>; >> /usr/ports ? >> >> I don't use '--depth 1' when I use git but seeing that discussed >> seems vaguely familiar. As I do want git history to be accurate and >> complete and I do make changes to the ports tree and with the >> intention >> of submitting patches I create it without that part. I migrated >> when use >> of git was still fairly new and I didn't reread that whole >> document but >> I recall I had /usr/ports as its own ZFS dataset and git gave me >> grief >> in trying to clone to that location, probably caused by the >> existence of >> /usr/ports/.zfs but I forget). I think there is another flag that >> suppresses such complaint but I think I cloned it to another >> location >> that was a normal directory and moved its contents including hidden >> content to /usr/ports. Git maintains its own data (only?) in >> /usr/ports/.git so that must be transferred too if moving the clone. >> >> > Regards, >> > >> > >> > Kaya >> [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <p>Ok so unfortunately this thing bummed out on zstd now:</p> <p><br> </p> <p>===> Installing for zstd-1.5.7_2<br> ===> Checking if zstd is already installed<br> ===> An older version of zstd is already installed (zstd-1.5.7_1)<br> You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again<br> by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.<br> If you really wish to overwrite the old port of zstd<br> without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"<br> in your environment or the "make install" command line.<br> *** Error code 1<br> <br> Stop.<br> make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/archivers/zstd/work/.install_done.zstd._usr_local" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd<br> *** Error code 1<br> <br> Stop.<br> make: stopped making "install" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd<br> <br> <br> </p> <p>#pkg info |grep zstd<br> zstd-1.5.7_1 Fast real-time compression algorith</p> <p><br> </p> <p># make deinstall; make install clean<br> ===> Deinstalling for zstd<br> ===> Deinstalling zstd-1.5.7_1<br> No packages matched for pattern 'zstd'<br> <br> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)<br> 1 packages requested for removal: 0 locked, 1 missing<br> *** Error code 1<br> <br> Stop.<br> make: stopped making "deinstall" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd<br> ===> Installing for zstd-1.5.7_2<br> ===> Checking if zstd is already installed<br> ===> An older version of zstd is already installed (zstd-1.5.7_1)<br> You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again<br> by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.<br> If you really wish to overwrite the old port of zstd<br> without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"<br> in your environment or the "make install" command line.<br> *** Error code 1<br> <br> Stop.<br> make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/archivers/zstd/work/.install_done.zstd._usr_local" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd<br> *** Error code 1<br> <br> Stop.<br> make: stopped making "install clean" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd<br> <br> </p> <p><br> </p> <p>So make check-plist shows:</p> <p><br> </p> <p>/usr/ports/archivers/zstd # make check-plist<br> ====> Checking for pkg-plist issues (check-plist)<br> ===> Parsing plist<br> ===> Checking for items in STAGEDIR missing from pkg-plist<br> ===> Checking for items in pkg-plist which are not in STAGEDIR<br> ===> No pkg-plist issues found (check-plist)</p> <p><br> </p> <p>/usr/ports/archivers/zstd # make stage-qa<br> ====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa)<br> /!\ To run stage-qa automatically add DEVELOPER=yes to your environment /!\</p> <p><br> </p> <p>So added to /etc/make.conf and now:</p> <p><br> </p> <p>/usr/ports/archivers/zstd # make stage-qa<br> ====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa</p> <p><br> </p> <p>That's all I get??</p> <p><br> </p> <p>Regards,</p> <p><br> </p> <p>Kaya</p> <p><br> </p> <p><br> </p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/27/26 2:22 AM, Kaya Saman wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:1cc06f0d-d10c-44bc-90de-bf1e1c1a61ea@optiplex-networks.com"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <p>Hi,</p> <p><br> </p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/26/26 9:23 PM, Maku Bex wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CALvWPyawLXn6eawFjud953UCQvZHbkFZ9_EEeEeaazR9EsoujQ@mail.gmail.com"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div dir="auto">You ran the commands under '/usr/ports' instead of '/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster'. You need to `cd` to the port name's folder then run the commands. In your case: <div dir="auto"><br> </div> <div dir="auto"># cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster</div> <div dir="auto"># make check-plist && make stage-qa</div> </div> <br> </blockquote> <p><br> </p> <p>Sorry I think I just blindly followed instructions or misunderstood as I had been awake for a little too long.</p> <p><br> </p> <p>Some good news, after removing and re-fetching the ports tree, I was able to rebuild Portmaster through using the standard "make" command and portmaster itself.</p> <p><br> </p> <p>At the moment, I've just done a: portmaster -adyf --no-confirm</p> <p><br> </p> <p>hopefully if the @ports system has stabilized now it should be able to complete the build of Perl which it got stuck on. Currently it's on 9 out of 828 ports, so maybe in a few hours once it gets to say port 11 or something where Perl gets rebuilt I should know.</p> <p><br> </p> <p>The machine is only a quad core Xeon so this will take some time but hopefully now it will build?</p> <p><br> </p> <p>I'll keep everyone posted :-)</p> <p><br> </p> <p>Regards,</p> <p><br> </p> <p>Kaya</p> <p><br> </p> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CALvWPyawLXn6eawFjud953UCQvZHbkFZ9_EEeEeaazR9EsoujQ@mail.gmail.com"> <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"> <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 26, 2026, 14:31 Edward Sanford Sutton, III <<a href="mailto:mirror176@hotmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">mirror176@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 5/25/26 22:43, Kaya Saman wrote:<br> > Hi,<br> > <br> > <br> > I've just gone through the upgrade procedure described here:<br> > <br> > <br> > <a href="https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/</a><br>; > <br> > <br> > and updated to 14.4 from 13.5 (I think was the latest release version?), <br> > uname output: 14.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64<br> > <br> > <br> > When I try to build ports now, this is what I keep getting:<br> > <br> > <br> > ===>>> Creating a backup package for old version portmaster-3.35<br> > Creating package for portmaster-3.35<br> > pkg-static: file '/usr/local/share/licenses/portmaster-3.35/BSD2CLAUSE' <br> > is missing<br> > pkg-static: package creation failed<br> > <br> > ===>>> Package creation failed for portmaster-3.35!<br> > <br> > ===>>> Ignore this error [i]<br> > ===>>> Abort update [a]<br> > ===>>> Retry [r]<br> > <br> > ===>>> How would you like to proceed? [i]<br> > <br> > No packages matched for pattern 'portmaster-3.35'<br> > <br> > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)<br> > 1 packages requested for removal: 0 locked, 1 missing<br> > <br> > ===> Installing for portmaster-3.35<br> > ===> Checking if portmaster is already installed<br> > ===> portmaster-3.35 is already installed<br> > You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again<br> > by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.<br> > If you really wish to overwrite the old port of portmaster<br> > without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"<br> > in your environment or the "make install" command line.<br> > *** Error code 1<br> > <br> > Stop.<br> > make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/ <br> > work/.install_done.portmaster._usr_local" in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/ <br> > portmaster<br> > *** Error code 1<br> > <br> > Stop.<br> > make: stopped making "install" in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster<br> > <br> > ===>>> A backup package for portmaster-3.35 should<br> > be located in /usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup<br> > <br> > ===>>> Installation of portmaster-3.35 (ports-mgmt/portmaster) failed<br> > ===>>> Aborting update<br> > <br> > <br> > ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command line:<br> > portmaster <flags> ports-mgmt/portmaster<br> > <br> > This command has been saved to ~/portmasterfail.txt<br> > <br> > <br> > <br> > For some reason I'm unable to use either portmaster or even the standard <br> > 'make' command under any of the ports eg:<br> > <br> > <br> > :/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster # make deinstall; make install clean<br> > ===> Deinstalling for portmaster<br> > ===> Deinstalling portmaster-3.35<br> > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)<br> > Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages (of 0 <br> > packages in the universe):<br> > <br> > Installed packages to be REMOVED:<br> > portmaster: 3.33<br> > <br> > Number of packages to be removed: 1<br> > [1/1] Deinstalling portmaster-3.33...<br> > [1/1] Deleting files for portmaster-3.33: 100%<br> > ===> Installing for portmaster-3.35<br> > ===> Checking if portmaster is already installed<br> > ===> portmaster-3.35 is already installed<br> > You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again<br> > by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.<br> > If you really wish to overwrite the old port of portmaster<br> > without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"<br> > in your environment or the "make install" command line.<br> > *** Error code 1<br> > <br> > Stop.<br> > make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/ <br> > work/.install_done.portmaster._usr_local" in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/ <br> > portmaster<br> > *** Error code 1<br> > <br> > Stop.<br> > make: stopped making "install clean" in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster<br> > <br> > <br> > There's a mismatch somewhere but what's going on?<br> <br> The ports tree, and therefore portmaster, perform installs and <br> uninstalls by running pkg. Running `pkg query %v portmaster` should <br> display what is says is currently the installed version number. If it is <br> installed according to pkg, then `pkg delete portmaster` should be the <br> correct action to remove it. `pkg info` outputs all installed packages <br> with version on the package name and comment beside it if you want to <br> manually review your full list.<br> I'm not sure what would have brought it to a state of always removing <br> pkg 3.33 when the ports tree and/or portmaster says it is uninstalling <br> 3.35 before that. I'd guess just an output bug where they assume its the <br> same version but that is misleading if that is happening and deserves a <br> bug report; better to display no version number on a stage's output if <br> the output is going to not match the command.<br> <br> > Do I need to update the ports tree? It seems there is no more "portsnap" <br> > command so should I clean out /usr/ports completely then use the git <br> > version described here:<br> <br> You should decide if there is anything in there that you want backed <br> up first: distfiles will only be used by a port calling for them and <br> generally require size and checksum match to be used so should be safe <br> to keep and will save download time/bandwidth. Work directories of many <br> ports get a versioned folder inside of it but the ports tree <br> instructions don't check that what already exists is correct; in any <br> case I'd let them all go if builds are giving you trouble (just as 'make <br> clean' would have done in a port's folder).<br> <br> > <a href="https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/</a><br>; > <br> > <br> > I guess this would be needed: # git clone --depth 1 https:// <br> > <a href="http://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git</a> /usr/ports ?<br> <br> I don't use '--depth 1' when I use git but seeing that discussed <br> seems vaguely familiar. As I do want git history to be accurate and <br> complete and I do make changes to the ports tree and with the intention <br> of submitting patches I create it without that part. I migrated when use <br> of git was still fairly new and I didn't reread that whole document but <br> I recall I had /usr/ports as its own ZFS dataset and git gave me grief <br> in trying to clone to that location, probably caused by the existence of <br> /usr/ports/.zfs but I forget). I think there is another flag that <br> suppresses such complaint but I think I cloned it to another location <br> that was a normal directory and moved its contents including hidden <br> content to /usr/ports. Git maintains its own data (only?) in <br> /usr/ports/.git so that must be transferred too if moving the clone.<br> <br> > Regards,<br> > <br> > <br> > Kaya<br> <br> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>home | help
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