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On 2014-06-07 22:40, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On June 7, 2014 at 10:22:41 PM +0200 "A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven" <freebsd@skysmurf.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>
>>> Recently I upgraded two servers to 8.4 and implemented the pkgng system.
>> [snip]
>>> Is portmaster not the appropriate method for updating ports with pkgng?
>>
>> It depends whether you're talking about *building* packages from the ports
>> tree or installing binary packages.
>>
>> As for building from ports, Portmaster doesn't care whether you're using
>> the new PNGNG or the old pkg_* tools.
>>
> 
> Thanks.  That's good to know.
> 
>>> Now, when I run portmaster -ad, it seems to keep reinstalling the same
>>> ports over and over again.
>>
>> That's strange. Perhaps PKGNG hasn't been initialised properly on your
>> system(s), that's all I can think of at the moment. Did you use pkg2ng?
>>
> 
> I'm pretty sure I did, but I ran it again.  I noticed several errors which I will have to investigate.
> 

Do you see which port is looping?
Perhaps a port was moved / renamed / removed and portmaster therfore is looping around

Sadly I cannot help more since I used all the years tinderbox / poudriere to build packages.

-- 
Regards,
olli