Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 06:35:37 +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: <69d57901-f905-48ac-8de4-14c5efb5f246@optiplex-networks.com> In-Reply-To: <41488858-2bed-429a-beae-6886de7fdf37@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> <41488858-2bed-429a-beae-6886de7fdf37@optiplex-networks.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] One more bit of info.... I ran: portmaster -d zstd which built fine but then said the port wasn't installed and still could not install it?? so under archivers/zstd running: make install clean ====> Compressing man pages (compress-man) ====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa) ===> Installing for zstd-1.5.7_2 ===> Checking if zstd is already installed ===> Registering installation for zstd-1.5.7_2 *** 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 and no package installed either? # pkg info |grep zstd On 5/27/26 5:54 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > > 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>One more bit of info....</p> <p><br> </p> <p>I ran: portmaster -d zstd which built fine but then said the port wasn't installed and still could not install it??</p> <p><br> </p> <p>so under archivers/zstd running: make install clean</p> <p><br> </p> <p>====> Compressing man pages (compress-man)<br> ====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa)<br> ===> Installing for zstd-1.5.7_2<br> ===> Checking if zstd is already installed<br> ===> Registering installation for zstd-1.5.7_2<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</p> <p><br> </p> <p>and no package installed either?</p> <p><br> </p> <p># pkg info |grep zstd</p> <p><br> </p> <p><br> </p> <p><br> </p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/27/26 5:54 AM, Kaya Saman wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:41488858-2bed-429a-beae-6886de7fdf37@optiplex-networks.com"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <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> </blockquote> </body> </html>home | help
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