From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 17:15:43 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 672C5F05 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm14-vm8.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm14-vm8.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.222]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29E6E798 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:15:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1412961213; bh=PEGQ1ReWLWxFAAipXgXVUEnXofmlIU8VIDHbDkb9u6k=; h=Received:Received:Received:DKIM-Signature:X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:From:To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:X-Mailer:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Subject; b=cwHVZw+ttJTbkdvOHtZO0QePH6YUSVVL3W33TSFUd1SE2CRXxa3bJPh1rOj/Lu04A+zYkJxCZoReb9T1kC01wtNEy4WjmvB81cgZ2Z/e1ExdvFCvasmqNjBPrX/TUVY+sfijrVLMxTkikF6O4oVZPNWxSTYK19xy/ElYm5kvw6Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=att.net; b=DCLKKaOV1mW78ukpCvzY2GhNBgXkZc6ObtBoeWUJkO4Ife72DYCMu2APvn8vggTrnoB0mEbsSvfmz3zY9SquGS44tJ/cBHRrZMkgcWHS2HcgiZokpmurk15rBHQslVmbCBWE3j3hnQEKRm0XzxiNWA1bFetSdGNXM6wIlfplH3Q=; Received: from [216.39.60.168] by nm14.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Oct 2014 17:13:33 -0000 Received: from [67.195.22.116] by tm4.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Oct 2014 17:13:33 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp111.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 10 Oct 2014 17:13:33 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=att.net; s=s1024; t=1412961213; bh=PEGQ1ReWLWxFAAipXgXVUEnXofmlIU8VIDHbDkb9u6k=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:From:To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:X-Mailer:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=gE6kfNW9D9YIKeXfi6aLAckGHoi4RJ8C9dgURm6u2XIm4IpdD2Enas10X++5iob7ak4HPLqv6CMpPi4DO5YiSt8R9HWXFsGnr99yDmd4vmFWB38abY3CMUPvKsb+pGA+J/2YC6Js/vwQM84mgfZIYAtTIB9a7mkqdICFCi166lw= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 561877.96203.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: nFCU7xEVM1nEgmlAeuQSXzS3utdDrPYBbxP8jRaxSWTFGM7 dYTcqr20Fdui4ifmBO143MINbdHf0ciBN4LLRMXPOJE88dd7OHw5IlAgsNSl DWrniV9UMi0_erI9U3hw4bI0vWGMPz5TB8oaO0cKoBH7cV569zKT.h2.ld4K LsNmDn.edm_n_SGxiyoOJ0j2gvk66NXpE.8WPFvOYoyjvXolWzSfzwWPFAcF KCS1KmSrDDyZvPWPxzovli85LSHSSNemO6ETh5hdoXF0WrQsFU5EbBtJubbf G_o8_wRKNif79jKwpKyIoPP4r8s0C.wVFA8LxUrh5Up2QYChVykoUN1ktvE6 eLfGgNnLIYNBpCluEMK6cUnnzESgQZZISH6bEOcsO0jR34vx8dggaEaV_1iO u6fXepJQlf5kl_upZYEZxWiU_m98t3NlwchNJhNnqSu3Vb.zey1OWQfqhdnY 8ehd0iaRzOCYleoSO.qtY_caRTdGdr_rQOLRWJtteeFLDqCxAhqTZLXC8alQ a0K8yuK.jwJz.dXBofQaZ.HWRKVxHC.MLhZTPvlSiwT8- X-Yahoo-SMTP: pPvqnOaswBBbYZLVYFzvU7GaowLcbNioPp.aF8KvOjZk From: To: freebsd-ports Subject: PKG not quite ready for prime time Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:13:32 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:15:43 -0000 I'm having quite a lot of trouble converting to pkg due to there being no obvious source of accurate documentation. I got this after I thought I had it solved and could install something: 11:36 Fri, 10 Oct [momcat:root]~> pkg install firefox Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database Fetching meta.txz: 100% 968 B 1.0k/s 00:01 pkg: Error loading trusted certificates pkg: repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings Fetching digests.txz: 100% 2 MB 119.8k/s 00:17 pkg: Error loading trusted certificates pkg: Unable to update repository FreeBSD All repositories are up-to-date. pkg: Repository FreeBSD has a wrong packagesite, need to re-create database pkg: Repository FreeBSD cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required Updating database digests format: 100% pkg: No packages available to install matching 'firefox' have been found in the repositories Just for the record, could someone knowledgeable please post the real, current list of required config files and their contents OR a pointer to known-good+complete documentation? Thanks!