Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:26:40 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User and vendor packages (for pkg_* tools) Message-ID: <1412195200.2514522.174078689.53C09F5F@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <542C1CD8.4030907@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <542BF06B.1070603@passap.ru> <1412166837.1994524.173874785.5FEDC463@webmail.messagingengine.com> <542C1CD8.4030907@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wed, Oct 1, 2014, at 10:25, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 10/01/14 13:33, Mark Felder wrote: > > 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. > > Actually there kind-of is such a tool. pkg-convert(8) > > It's not ideal, in that you have to install the old-style package > *before* converting it. Making pkg-convert able to read either old- or > new- style package tarballs and output to the alternate format tarball > would be an interesting project. > You can't install the old-style package if you don't have pkg_tools. They were also removed from the ports tree. This is now a wild goose chase if you aren't on an OS that natively came with pkg_tools. If a vendor supplied an old pkg that would run fine on FreeBSD 10 with compat4x and you want to run on a modern kernel/OS this is now a very high learning curve. I hope we can fix this in the near future.
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