Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 07:33:57 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User and vendor packages (for pkg_* tools) Message-ID: <1412166837.1994524.173874785.5FEDC463@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <542BF06B.1070603@passap.ru> References: <542BF06B.1070603@passap.ru>
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On Wed, Oct 1, 2014, at 07:15, Boris Samorodov wrote: > Hi All, > > A user has License to use an App and uses pkgng. The vendor has > only packages for pkg_* tools. > > What the user should do? Is there a tool to convert old packages to > new format? > There is no such tool. You would have to manually convert it to the new package format by making a port for it. I think a skeleton port that asked the user a few questions could do this automatically. I will consider taking a stab at this, but I will have to locate an example to test with.
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