Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:07:22 -0700 From: John Vinopal <john@vinopal.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: 5.4.1. Getting Started with pkg Message-ID: <5435B59A.1050204@vinopal.com>
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Hi there, I have a suggest improvement to the handbook. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html Section "5.4.1. Getting Started with pkg" should discuss an issue with pkg2ng, namely that packages converted in this manner do not have correct meta-data regarding their "automatic" or "directly-installed" status. Here is a suggested paragraph that will illuminate the issue for people upgrading via pkg2ng. After <span class="application">pkg2ng</span> has finished, converted packages are marked as "non-automatic". Non-automatic packages are those directly installed, while "automatic" packages are installed as a dependency. The older package system did not record this meta-data. In order to use tools such as <code class="command">pkg autoremove</code>, you must manually set the "automatic" state for dependencies. For example, <code class="command">pkg set -A 1 perl-5.14</code>. See pkg(8) for more information. Thanks for your hard work! -john
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