Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:23:59 +0100 From: Rolf G Nielsen <rnmtw83@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Combining pkg and "traditional ports" Message-ID: <52D6297F.6070002@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140115071739.202648fd.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140115063634.d6d26d51.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140115135812.7863d575@X220.alogt.com> <20140115071739.202648fd.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 2014-01-15 07:17, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:58:12 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:36:34 +0100 >> Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: >> >>> With the upcoming OS standardization on pkg (pkgng) following >>> the abolishment of the pkg_* toolset I'd like to ask questions >> >> did I get something wrong or does this only affects the binary >> 'distribution'? >> >> As long as the ports are in place, png should have no impact on them. > > No, you're right - ports and packages can still coexist with the > new tool. Programs like portupgrade and portmaster should also be > able to adapt to pkg (registering installed software and so on). > > > >> But if you upgrade your system using packages, you will overwrite >> whatever is on the system and might destroy parts of it as the binary >> installed uses the wrong options. > > That's what I've been fearing. Instead of specifying "nearly all" > packages manually, my idea would have been to "upgrade all with > the exceptions of". > > Check out portupgrade's -P option combined with the USE_PORTS_ONLY variable in pkgtools.conf.
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