Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 22:20:20 +0000 From: Peter Sprokkelenburg <peters@connections.ca> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> Cc: "pkg@FreeBSD.org" <pkg@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Legacy system Message-ID: <593F4F4552EC764FBA345306F57D4C6C47A81B71@exch01.corp.dsl4u.ca> In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVf3WJt%2B%2B5-i1HMY_mP3zu6uT_3HrQ=K3Rf-7MFBbWg_4g@mail.gmail.com> References: <593F4F4552EC764FBA345306F57D4C6C47A8194C@exch01.corp.dsl4u.ca> <CAG=rPVf3WJt%2B%2B5-i1HMY_mP3zu6uT_3HrQ=K3Rf-7MFBbWg_4g@mail.gmail.com>
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Craig, Thank you for the link. I had some pkgdb corruption that I had to clean up first, that is all sorte= d and I was able to install pkg following the instructions. The /usr/sbin/pkg REALLY helped. Thanks again! ----- Peter Sprokkelenburg http://www.dsl4u.ca<http://www.dsl4u.ca/>; From: crodr001@gmail.com [mailto:crodr001@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Craig Rod= rigues Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:27 PM To: Peter Sprokkelenburg Cc: pkg@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Legacy system On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Peter Sprokkelenburg <peters@connections.= ca<mailto:peters@connections.ca>> wrote: I have a system that we only use internally and it some how got *missed* on= getting upgrade to pkg from pkg_ Attempting to upgrade now give an error - /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg]# make You are about to convert your system to pkg while you have ports/packages installed with the old pkg_install tools. To switch to pkg: 1) Install ports-mgmt/pkg 2) Convert your package database by running pkg2ng *** [pre-everything] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg. Hi, Can you follow the steps (in order) here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html#pkgng-initial-setup and report anything that is unclear in that doc, so we can clean it up? -- Craig
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