Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:47:43 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: portmaster and pkgng Message-ID: <500D1DBF.6030608@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <500D19EE.7030607@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <500D0EA5.4050900@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <CADLo838_NSsfSi3QMBh0LrjiCU0vePk1CV4GExrDZtHDnadm7w@mail.gmail.com> <500D19EE.7030607@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On 23/07/2012 10:31, Hartmann, O. wrote:
> portmaster now is not recognizing anymore the format of the /var/db/pkg=
> folder - for those considered the knowledged no surprise, for me simply=
> the indication that portmaster usage isn't usable as usual.
You need to patch portmaster separately from installing pkgng. Once
that is done, it doesn't complain about missing stuff in /var/db/pkg
Note: use the latest version of the patch from git in preference to what
is included in pkgng distfiles: the patch gets updated following
portmaster's release schedule, not pkgng's.
Here:
https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/raw/master/ports/patch-portmaster-pkgn=
g
> Well, if I understand it right, pkg is considered to be for binary
> packages and does not make portmaster obsolete, if I'm inclined
> compiling my ports myself, am I right?
Correct.
> Well, I thought I read in here that pkg has now a much more
> sophisticated tracking of dependencies - usage of SQLite implies, that
> there is now a great opportunity of doing well in tracking problems and=
> versioning (I might be wrong).
Again, correct. pkgng replaces grepping through a lot of files under
/var/db/pkg with doing some fairly simple SQL queries, and is in general
a much faster at that sort of thing.
> I tried to follow the chat on the list about pkgng, but for the rush I
> didn't figured out whether portmaster is considered obsolete - I saw
> patches for portupgrade flushing in, so my logic has been falsified by
> that implicitely ...
portmaster is definitely not obsolete. pkgng doesn't /do/ ports at all,
only packages.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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