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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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