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Date:      Sun, 08 Jun 2014 10:44:37 -0700
From:      Jim Pazarena <fports@paz.bz>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg 2 ng conversion
Message-ID:  <5394A105.5040006@paz.bz>

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On 2014-05-28 11:30 AM, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 5/28/14, 2:13 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>>
>> On a new/fresh install, V10, should a person immediately place
>> "WITH_PKGNG=yes" in the make.conf ? And then is it not required
>> to run pkg2ng ? Or is it implied? It seems not, but I cannot find
>> documentation in this respect.
>
> In my experience it is unnecessary to add "WITH_PKGNG=yes" in a fresh
> FreeBSD 10 box, and it is certainly not necessary to run pkg2ng since
> there are no installed packages.
>
> The pkg_* tools are not included in FreeBSD 10 and the pkg(ng) system is
> the default.
>

this process is a little confusing.
do I still need to run "portsnap fetch" ?

Or does this need to be replaced with some other ng style update?



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