Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 01:53:09 -0800 (PST) From: Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: pkgng woes Message-ID: <1352454789865-5759489.post@n5.nabble.com>
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Pkgng, as a concept may be great, but it's not really working - at least for me: 1. pkg2ng conversion does not do a complete job and I have about half of my ports in purgatory or a quasi-installed state. The program runs and is installed but pkgdb does not have a record for it. So my ports updates do a half-ass job. 2. I am used to portmaster and I accept that portupgrade is "more ready" to be used with pkgng than portmaster. However, portmaster has the "--check-depends" option which I would normally use to correct problem #1, alas I see no similar function in portupgrade or pkg. The "portupgrade -Ffu" and "pkg check" commands don't do the trick either. 3. I have some ports that I never want to install (like accessibility/atk or net/avahi). The new pkgtools.conf has a nice feature of IGNORE_CATEGORIES and HOLD_PKGS which I hope will allow me to "blacklist" those ports but I have my doubts as the knob is PKGS and not PORTS - so we'll see. Separately though, while trying to get my system pkgng complient and doing updates, there have been some ports which were pulled in that I whish to remove. As in #2, portmaster --check-depends did a nice job of this and allowed the dependency to be removed from the portsdb structure - so same problem here as #2. 4. I know how to do +IGNOREME in the portsdb and that is a very roundabout way of solving an sqlite entry. 5. pkg add does not respect existing port version information on the system. If you try to install a package and its dependencies, pkg tries to pull in its own preferred version. This happened for perl5 - I have 5.16 already on the system but pkg kept trying to install 5.14. The only solution was to use the old "pkg-add -i" to install one-by-one and without the dependencies. Interesting how pkgng does not have the -i (no-deps) option?? 6. portupgrade's -i (interactive) also completely ignores you when adding a new port. It just goes and does its thing then happily informs you of the its fait accompli. Ubuntu's Synaptic gives more control than this... -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/pkgng-woes-tp5759489.html Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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