From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Feb 13 10:29:17 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6493FAA64C1 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:29:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) Received: from hades.sorbs.net (mail.sorbs.net [67.231.146.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552DF1AB2 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:29:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) 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 <0O2H00G1RESEWX00@hades.sorbs.net> for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 02:36:16 -0800 (PST) Message-id: <56BF0577.7010808@sorbs.net> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:29:11 +0100 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: Kurt Jaeger Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Removing documentation References: <56B754A8.3030605@marino.st> <56BCE01D.4010701@FreeBSD.org> <56BCE218.40403@marino.st> <56BCEC5F.4020007@marino.st> <56BDF2A3.9030100@ohlste.in> <56BE0CC5.50103@sorbs.net> <20160212190032.GD26283@home.opsec.eu> In-reply-to: <20160212190032.GD26283@home.opsec.eu> X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:29:17 -0000 Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > Michelle wrote: > >> ports (post pkg) from source: exactly the same problems as pre-pkg plus >> occasionally the DB would get corrupted and then you have to nuke the >> entire package system from orbit and reinstall all the ports. >> > > Interestingly, I had my cases of strange dependencies chains, but > I can't remember a case where the pkg-db was really trashed to no > longer function. > > The more recent pkg versions are very robust for my use cases. > > It was earlyish (first 6-9 months) in the "you're going to use this now whether you like it or not and whether it works or not phase".. since then I've made the ports system work with pkg_tools again so no longer have anything to do with pkg. Its a good stop-gap until I can get the build environment integrated into the CentOS one @ $employer. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/