Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:22:27 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, zaphod@berentweb.com Subject: Re: pkgng woes Message-ID: <201211091322.qA9DMRfH050624@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1352464748337-5759521.post@n5.nabble.com>
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@anton portmaster --check-depends does not work for me. Shows everything as fine but when I specifically target a port: *# portmaster -i graphics/gimp* for example, I get a long list of ports to be installed - meaning not all of the existing ports have been registered correctly, hence --check depends will not work. Once I re-install all of the "missing depends" and run the same command (*# portmaster -i graphics/gimp*) then there are no problems nor list of missing depends. Well... if it's any consolation, my convertion to pkgng wasn't easy either. In fact, I'n not sure I'm all there yet. My problem was due to using an outdated portmaster pkgng patch. Note: this is no longer an issue. Anyway, I ended up with a corrupted pkg database. I had to update many ports manually. Now that the pkg database is fully under pngng control (I'm just a user and don't follow the technical details, hence my using of non-technical language) I think portmaster can work with it. For example portmaster --check-port-dbdir seems to give correct results. Anyway, I think the idea is to remove a lot of functionality from portmaster and give it to pkgng. For example checking for missing dependencies, or shared libs. However, I'm used to working with ports only, never with packages. I still don't understand if pkgng is the tool for me or not. People keep talking of poudriere, but again I'm not sure if some of the portmaster functionality is supposed to be taken over by pourdriere or not. Anton
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