Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:46:01 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: portmaster not updating ports with new pkg Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1402171442210.41516@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ5UdcM7o9w2=Ewmdhwgj1a1Rp4%2BOvELOStQ=vxX=EaEcYsqDg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ5UdcPEC1aWJnJcDjkGxtn141TU7gbMT84dLoPGKGkiu5UhOg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1402171245190.40330@wonkity.com> <CAJ5UdcNLZtZfy9s47U4iTA7fMt_sQFGB0TsUy03TG-Vf8gScXg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1402171324470.40330@wonkity.com> <CAJ5UdcM7o9w2=Ewmdhwgj1a1Rp4%2BOvELOStQ=vxX=EaEcYsqDg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> >>>> portmaster works for me the same as it always did. Did you add >>>> WITH_PKGNG=yes to make.conf? >>> >>> >>> Isn't this done automagically? >> >> >> No. >> >> >>> How do I do this? with ee as root? >> >> >> That will work, yes. > > Now it appears to be churning :) Hopefully you ran pkg2ng at some point. > Thank you both Mario & Warren for your help. I get the warning that > > PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository > configuration file > > But a site > > http://networkedblogs.com/RurUw > > states add the followng: > > cp /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf Those instructions also involve portupgrade, which is not necessary when using portmaster. I just delete the config file, it is not needed unless you want to download binary packages anyway. > I shall try this advice and see if the warning goes away. > > On 8.4-RELEASE is it advised to move to pkgng? It will be EOL'd when? > I have moved to pkgng on 9.2 machines, but for 8.4 it may not be > plausible? There is only one ports tree. When the old package database goes away in August, pkg(8) will be the thing to use on any supported version of FreeBSD.
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