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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:01:26 +0100
From:      Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:   Re: 9.1-PRE: updating of pkg-1.0.3 -> pkg-1.0.4 fails
Message-ID:  <50DDA636.7010108@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <50DDA265.7060303@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <50DDA265.7060303@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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On 2012-12-28 14:45, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> Last time I update ports on my latop was on Dec 20th. Everything went
> well. Today I grabbed the laptop again, made an update of the ports tree
> and try running portmaster.
> 
> The laptop is running FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #142 r244377: Tue Dec 18
> 07:29:18 CET 2012.
> 
> The update of pkgng is the first in line to be updated, but it fails as
> you can see below. I do not understand the recommendations, since I use
> USE_PKGNG=yes on that box without problems for a couple of weeks now.
> 
> I then downloaded the new pkg-1.0.4 sources manually and did a manula
> update jumping into ports-mgmt/pkg; make reinstall.
> 
> This worked, but leaves the record in the pkg-db still on 1.0.3, so any
> further portmaster attempt will end in installing the update of pkg
> first, which ends up in the nasty message below.
> 
> I can not see this behaviour on any FreeBSD 10.0 box I have around!
> 
> What is wrong here?
> 
> Oliver
> 
> [...]
> ===>  Cleaning for pkg-1.0.4_1
> You are about to convert your system to pkgng while you have ports/packages
> installed with the old pkg_install tools.
> 
> You can choose to:
> - keep pkg_install as the package management system by adding this line
> to /etc/make.conf:
> 
>     WITHOUT_PKGNG=yes
> 
> - switch to pkgng:
>     1) Add WITHOUT_PKGNG to /etc/make.conf
>     2) Install ports-mgmt/pkg
>     3) Convert your package database by running pkg2ng
>     4) Remove WITHOUT_PKGNG from /etc/make.conf
> 
> *** [pre-everything] Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg.
> 
> ===>>> make failed for ports-mgmt/pkg
> ===>>> Aborting update
> 
> ===>>> Update for pkg-1.0.3_1 failed
> ===>>> Aborting update
> 
> Terminated
> 
> ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command line:
>        portmaster <flags> ports-mgmt/pkg devel/pkgconf

Hm, can you look into the directory /var/db/pkg and check there a no leftovers from the old pkg tools (directories).
If there are any old directories the pre-everything target will be executed and you see this failure.
What gives the command pkg_info as output?

--
Regards,
olli



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