Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 22:49:33 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Jive prejudices Message-ID: <b8d87881-cdd1-e0fc-304d-3c37c174b70b@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20161023124730.H69026-100000@main.put.com> References: <20161023124730.H69026-100000@main.put.com>
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Am 23.10.2016 um 18:49 schrieb Louis Epstein: > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Alphons van Werven wrote: > >> Louis Epstein wrote: >> >>> In any event,portmaster -a -i updates now abort because misc/jive is >>> detected on my system. >>> >>> This goes beyond "We will no longer provide this application" to >>> "we will no longer let you upgrade your applications as long as you >>> have this one installed". >> To be fair, I strongly doubt this is deliberate policy. >> >> Portmaster itself is a port too. When pkg(7) hit the streets and other >> sweeping changes were made to the ports infrastructure, Portmaster had to >> be updated and that might still be an ongoing process. In any case, Port- >> master needs *some* way of dealing with broken(*) ports and I can imagine >> that this can get tricky when dependencies are involved. From the looks of >> it, Portmaster just takes the easy way out and simply bails completely >> when it encounters a broken port. > Does it matter that I installed it with pkg rather than portmaster or make > install? Irrelevant. No matter how a port got installed, they all end up being registered with and managed by pkg(7).
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