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Date:      Sun, 8 Jun 2014 21:44:35 +0200
From:      Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org>
To:        Jim Pazarena <fports@paz.bz>
Cc:        "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg 2 ng conversion
Message-ID:  <AC059B4F-2043-4B47-A369-88A3A11E4F57@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <5394B89A.4040607@paz.bz>
References:  <5394B89A.4040607@paz.bz>

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> On 08 Jun 2014, at 21:25, Jim Pazarena <fports@paz.bz> wrote:
>=20
>> On 2014-06-08 10:55 AM, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>>=20
>>=20
>> No.  pkg is just a package manager.  It does not replace ports, it just
>> handles packages.  Like the old package manager, binary packages can be
>> downloaded and installed rather than ports, but the choice is yours.
>=20
> Ahh.. therein lies the confusion. I have been compiling ports for many
> years. However the compilations began nagging about converting pkg2ng.
> So I investigated, and set the appropriate "WITH_PKGNG=3Dyes" and ran
> pkg2ng. But I never use packages. I always compile from ports.
>=20
> So the warning appearing in each and every compile was & is very
> misleading. Unless I am *still* confused !!

Not really. If you build from ports that results in a binary package that is=
 installed using the package manager. Old pkg_* tools won't be supported aft=
er September 1st, so this directly affects you, even if you build all ports y=
ourself.


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