From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 15 15:41:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CA92DF for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bdrewery@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [8.8.178.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4F08FC14 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:41:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q9FFfkN4035188 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:41:46 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from bdrewery@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q9FFfkSY035185 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:41:46 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery) Received: (qmail 91585 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2012 10:41:44 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.74?) (freebsd@shatow.net@74.94.87.209) by sweb.xzibition.com with ESMTPA; 15 Oct 2012 10:41:44 -0500 Message-ID: <507C2EBB.4040905@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:41:47 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: pkg has screwed up my ports References: <20121015150736.GA1213@kontrol.kode5.net> <507C2DCF.1020801@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <507C2DCF.1020801@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jamie Paul Griffin , FreeBSD Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:41:47 -0000 On 10/15/2012 10:37 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote: > 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 to check outdated ports.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. Need more caffeine. Selecting PKGNG will not enable pkgng, but adding WITH_PKGNG=yes in your make.conf WILL force pkgng, thus requiring pkg2ng be ran. > >> 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