Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 23:16:04 +0200 From: olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Subject: Re: How are ports built now Message-ID: <53938114.9060303@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <F15EFF113780A8A629B44407@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> References: <FF2053FA1B75B463D14C7152@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20140607202241.GA59544@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> <F15EFF113780A8A629B44407@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local>
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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
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