Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:37:51 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> To: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg has screwed up my ports Message-ID: <507C2DCF.1020801@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20121015150736.GA1213@kontrol.kode5.net> References: <20121015150736.GA1213@kontrol.kode5.net>
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On 10/15/2012 10:07 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > This morning I updated my ports tree using svn, then ran portmaster -L > to check outdated ports. portmaster was one of those ports. > > I then ran portmaster -a . it prompted me to select options from the > blue options screen, I selected pkgng support. > Sorry for this not being more clear. I will add a message in. If you select PKGNG, the assumption is you have pkg installed and will run pkg2ng to stop using the old /var/db/pkg|pkg_install format. Selecting PKGNG option requires you run pkg2ng, otherwise portmaster will think you have nothing installed. > Anyway, the update of portmaster failed. I ran pkg2ng, it went through > all of my ports, etc. Just following instruction that were printed to > the terminal. > > It has screwed up spamassassin to the point where I cannot even install > it now; either using make install clean, pkg install ... , portmaster > mail/p5-Mail-SpamAsassin, etc, etc. There may be others too, I can't > tell right now because my entire ports system has been corrupted and > therefore rendered useless. > > i'm on a different machine now so I don't have all the errors i've been > getting available right now > > i Think i'm going to have remove every single port and start again. I'm > really peed off about this. Moving forward and progressing is fine, but > there are clearly plenty of problems with this new pkg mechanism. I've > been sat here all day trying to fix the mess and i'm no further forward. > A total waste of day. Aren't these things tested properly before forcing them > upon us users - it's us that suffer. I've had to take my mail server > offline and route mail to another whilst I get this sorted. > > Surely someone else has had this issue today, or recently. ??? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Bryan Drewery bdrewery@freenode/EFNet
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