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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:23:05 -0500
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>
To:        Jim Trigg <jtrigg@spamcop.net>
Cc:        Jos Chrispijn <kernel@webrz.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Portmaster/Portupgrade | pkg2ng
Message-ID:  <507EB139.8030402@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121017131849.GI75370@spamcop.net>
References:  <507DCD7E.3080108@webrz.net> <507DF31F.4030706@FreeBSD.org> <20121017131849.GI75370@spamcop.net>

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On 10/17/2012 8:18 AM, Jim Trigg wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 06:51:59PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> On 10/16/2012 4:11 PM, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
>>> Somewhat lost here; just read UPDATING in which is reported about an
>>> additional function support of pkgng by portupgrade and portmaster:
>>>
>>> PORTMASTER
>>>   # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster config build deinstall
>>> install clean
>>>   # echo 'WITH_PKGNG=yes' >> /etc/make.conf
>>>   # pkg2ng*
>>>
>>> PORTUPGRADE
>>>   # echo 'WITH_PKGNG=yes' >> /etc/make.conf
>>>   # pkg2ng*
>>>   # pkgdb -fu
>>>
>>> The only issue I have is that this pkg2ng command doesn't work as this
>>> program* cannot be found so the command returns with a 'pkg2ng: Command
>>> not found.'
>>> Can someone tell me what I miss here?
>>
>> make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg install clean
>>
>> Sorry for the confusion. I will add that in.
> 
> I think what's needed for portmaster is an explicit mention that the
> PKGNGPATCH option needs to be selected.  That will cause pkg to be
> installed automatically, and installing it manually just increases the
> risk that portmaster won't have been built correctly to support it.
> 

The patch will be fully merged upstream for 3.15, removing the patch option.

It will then work for both pkgng and pkg_install. The plan is to support
pkg_install until at least the last branch with pkg_install is EoL.
Currently that is 8.3 in April 2014 (www.freebsd.org/security)

> Jim
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-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery
bdrewery@freenode/EFNet



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