From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 17:24:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F39DC3FC for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2014 17:24:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.73.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE5E281B for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2014 17:24:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [76.184.156.59] ([76.184.156.59:61005] helo=[192.168.1.32]) by dnvrco-oedge01 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 7B/F8-12227-85C94935; Sun, 08 Jun 2014 17:24:41 +0000 Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 12:24:40 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl Reply-To: Paul Schmehl To: Torfinn Ingolfsen , FreeBSD Ports ML Subject: Re: How are ports built now Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <2AF4F1470E341E22BC76B4FD@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.118:25 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=O4i3vXNW c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=iy4Q/FHRRDrLt+awqfk3Bw==:117 a=iy4Q/FHRRDrLt+awqfk3Bw==:17 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=05ChyHeVI94A:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=UdvEN9gbqWsBAELrqE0A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 17:24:49 -0000 --On June 8, 2014 at 7:17:01 PM +0200 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Paul Schmehl > wrote: >> >> Thanks, but no, you misunderstand. I just upgraded to servers to 8.4 and >> decided to adopt the new pkgng system at the same time. Any time I >> upgrade the OS, I always rebuild all ports. I've been using portmaster >> -ad to do that for a while now. > > Ah, ok. Sorry for the confusion. > I'm still using portupgrade, and haven't used portmaster, so I have > nothing to add about that. > >> One one of the servers I seem to be in some sort of loop. Every time I >> run portmaster -ad the same ports come up for install/upgrade. Yet when >> portmaster completes it says the ports were successfully installed. Run >> portmaster -ad again, the same list pops up. >> > > All I can say is follow this mailing list closely. There seems to be a > lot of problems with the ports tree lately, it has made me lose some > confidence in the ports tree. Now I only update when I absolutely have > to. > Me too. Between staging and the change to pkgng, everything is upside down. It seems FreeBSD is headed toward the dependency hell of Linux instead of the smooth running ports system we once had. Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell