From owner-freebsd-pkg@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 00:19:30 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: pkg@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 185CBC0B; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 00:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.sorbs.net (hades.sorbs.net [67.231.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72ACF1578; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 00:19:29 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from isux.com (firewall.isux.com [213.165.190.213]) by hades.sorbs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.29.0 64bit (built Jul 9 2013)) with ESMTPSA id <0NB80004QZQPH900@hades.sorbs.net>; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 02:19:19 +0200 From: Michelle Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 To: Baptiste Daroussin Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-reply-to: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, pkg@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Binary package management and package tools discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:19:30 -0000 Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hi all, > > The ports tree has been modified to only support pkg(8) as package management > system for all supported version of FreeBSD. > > if you were still using pkg_install (pkg_* tools) you will have to upgrade your > system. > > The simplest way is > cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg > make install > then run > pkg2ng > > You will have lots of warning, don't be scared, they are expected, pkg_* > databases used to get easily mangled. pkg2ng is most of the time able to deal > with it. > > If however you encounter a problem then please report to pkg@FreeBSD.org > > A tag has been applied to the ports tree if you need to get the latest ports > tree before the EOL of pkg_install: > https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/tags/PKG_INSTALL_EOL > > A branch has been created if some committers want to provides updates on the > for pkg_install users: > https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/branches/pkg_install > > Please note that this branch is not officially maintained and that we strongly > recommend that you do migrate to pkg(8) > > Best regards, > Bapt on behalf of portmgr > And for the portsnap users? -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/